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THIMBLE
Unique ID: SOM-31B622
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Medieval - Post medieval cast copper alloy thimble with sloping sides, a slightly domed top and a slight carination between side and top. The thimble is squashed and the top is damaged with c.50% missing to an old break. The sides are covered with a continuous spiral of circular pits arranged in neat rows. The spiral appears to continue onto the top with slightly smaller pits but due to damage and corrosion this is unclear. There is a plain band at the rim with a indented line separating it form the main field and the pits. The squashed rim has several tears but no obvious notches and there is probably no bare tonsure although the missing section makes this unclear. The thimble is now 20.9mm tall, 25.9mm by 7.6mm at the base, 0.8mm thick and weighs 5.18 grams.
It is similar to Holmes (1988) p. 1 Fig 2a which is dated 1400-1550 AD and to examples from Southwark (Egan 2005: 131-2, no.629-631) from contexts dated 1530-1600 AD.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.9 mm
Height: 20.9 mm
Width: 7.6 mm
Thickness: 0.8 mm
Weight: 5.18 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 7th March 2011
Personal details
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Recorded by: Ms Laura Burnett
Identified by: Ms Laura Burnett
Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC 020625
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Alvediston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
- Holmes, E.F., 1988 Sewing Thimbles Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasheet 9 1 , 2a
- Egan, G., 2005 Material Culture in London in an Age Of Transition: Tudor and Stuart period finds c.1450 - c.1700 from excavations at riverside sites in Southwark London: Museum of London Archaeology Service 131-2 , 629-631
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