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THIMBLE
Unique ID: NLM-E6B19F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy thimble. Pressed metal domed thimble with a foot ring and a plain basal zone above it. The rest of the wall is covered by 13 rows of stamped circular pits arranged in diagonal lines ascending right to left. The top bears a rectilinear grid or lattice of square pits. One part of the wall is lost, but all of what remains is glossed by wear. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1750-1850.
Height: 18mm, Diameter: 14mm, Thickness (wall): 0.6mm, Weight: 2.30gms.
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 1750
Date to: Circa AD 1850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 18 mm
Thickness: 0.6 mm
Weight: 2.3 g
Diameter: 14 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 15th August 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM26507a
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Bottesford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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