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THIMBLE
Unique ID: PUBLIC-A66744
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Dutch, Holmes Type I, composite two- or three-piece sheet copper-alloy thimble dating to c.1620- c.1650. The body of the thimble has concentric rows of sub-diamond-shaped, punched pits and a distinct vertical seam where the rolled, sheet thimble was joined. The top of the thimble is separate, domed and decorated with a waffle pattern of punched, circular pits. There is a very distinctive, punched maker's mark within a plain band close to the thimble's lower edge.
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 1620
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 26 mm
Weight: 7.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th November 2012
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: South Somercotes (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4393
Four figure Latitude: 53.41443125
Four figure longitude: 0.1500926
1:25K map: TF4393
1:10K map: TF49SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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