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THIMBLE
Unique ID: LIN-53BAB2
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Post-Medieval lead or lead alloy palm guard. It is ovate in plan with a broad shallowly domed cross section. The flat side has a central figure of eight depression. Dates to between c1700 and c1900 AD. Such objects would have been wrapped in cloth of leather with a hole above the depressions. They were then strapped to the hand to protect the palm when tightening cord or using awls and punches in an industry such as leatherworking or sail making. Palm guards of this design are thought to have been cast on occasion in mussel or oyster shells. Portable Antiquities Scheme record number IOW-A9A877 still has the shell remains.
Similar objects on the database include YORYM-2DB804, CORN-D88811, and WMID-B40425.
LANCUM-4A2A52 shows obvious signs of use.
Class: Palm guard
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1700
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 64 mm
Width: 43 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 116.96 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Addlethorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5368
Four figure Latitude: 53.18709175
Four figure longitude: 0.28838365
1:25K map: TF5368
1:10K map: TF56NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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