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THIMBLE
Unique ID: BERK-FA6683
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A damaged and squashed but complete copper alloy thimble dating to the early post-medieval period. The thimble has a peaked dome at the top and is decorated on both the top and the sides with hand-punched rectangular pits. Below the final line of pits on the sides of the thimble is a cojoined crescentic type decoration. There may also be a maker's mark but this could be hidden by an area of corrosion. This style of thimble was made in Nuremberg where the Guild of Thimblemakers required all thimbles to be marked, however not all were. The thimble dates from c. 1550-1620 AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1620
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 17.14 mm
Thickness: 0.65 mm
Weight: 1.6 g
Diameter: 19.49 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2013 - Monday 10th June 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2013.833
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Minster Lovell (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3110
Four figure Latitude: 51.78780413
Four figure longitude: -1.55197433
1:25K map: SP3110
1:10K map: SP31SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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