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A complete Post medieval copper alloy thimble dating AD1520-1620.
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Wyatt, 2016-11-24 14:24:16
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A complete Post medieval copper alloy thimble dating AD1520-1620.
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English: A complete Post medieval copper alloy thimble dating AD 1520-1620. The thimble has a wide margin between the base and the regularly spaced pits which is decorated with a stamped pattern. The pattern comprises a stamped repeated decoration composed of a central annulet within a beaded circle with small stars above and below in the angles. The motif is stamped to form a band of decoration. Below this there is a thin stamped repeating band. The pits are drilled in a spiral and they cover the peak. There is no makers mark. Holmes (1988:3) writes "Thimbles with hand punched indentations often have a maker's mark which is struck where the spiral of the indentations begins near the base. These would appear to have been imported mostly from Nuremberg where, under the ordinances of the Guild of Thimble-makers, all thimbles and sewing rings were required to carry the mark of the master who made them. However not all Nuremberg thimbles are necessarily marked. So far as one can judge thimbles with makers' marks normally date from 1520-1620." The object is a brassy golden colour. Similar Nuremberg thimbles can be seen in Holmes (1988 Fig.5).

Dimensions: length: 24.45mm; diameter: 17.62mm; weight: 4.47g.

Similar thimbles on the database are <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/275975" title="View details for LON-94D972">LON-94D972</a> and <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/227774" title="View details for NMS-725926">NMS-725926</a>.

Holmes, E. 1988. Sewing Thimbles. Datasheet 9. Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasbeets 1-24. 1985-1998. Reprographic Unit, University of Oxford.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Greater London Authority
Date between 1550 and 1620
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 816519
Old ref: LON-6EDF95
Filename: LON6EDF95x.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/591829
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/591829/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/816519
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Object location51° 30′ 38.16″ N, 0° 05′ 50.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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