Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-D5E961
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete copper alloy bee-hive thimble dating from medieval to post-medieval period (AD 1400-1600). The thimble has a closed apex to its dome. Around the rim at the base of the thimble is a 1.4 mm smooth ridge or band. The thimble's body is covered with a series of punched holes in concentric rings which cease just before the apex to leave an undecorated 'tonsure' c 3.45 mm in diameter. The internal surface of the thimble is smooth and undecorated. The thimble is covered with a green patina. The thimble is 13.5 mm in height and 16.85 mm in diameter at the base; it weighs 3.26 grams.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Height: 13.5 mm
Weight: 3.26 g
Diameter: 16.85 mm
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Other reference: SSWM 5240
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU1972
Four figure Latitude: 51.44667306
Four figure longitude: -1.72799191
1:25K map: SU1972
1:10K map: SU17SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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