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THIMBLE
Unique ID: NLM-22B9E0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy thimble fragment. Upper wall and top of a pressed metal domed thimble with eleven rows of small round machine stamped pits on its wall, and a rectilinear grid of larger pits on the top. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900.
Diameter: 14.7mm, Height: 14.3mm, Thickness (wall): 0.6mm, Weight: 1.75gms.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1850
Date to: Circa AD 1900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 14.3 mm
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 1.75 g
Diameter: 14.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 13th September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26798a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Burwell
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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