Record ID: LANCUM-5328C4
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leather worker's palm guard, made from cast lead-alloy. Too heavy for scales.
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Borwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-FF8A80
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval thimble. The rim is uneven and damaged and it is unthickened. The sides are straight and taper slightly in towards the top. The sides are impressed, on the outside, with dots in seven rows. The top has an impressed pattern, radiating out from the center.
Created on: Monday 28th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-F77F07
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval silver thimble dating post 1850. The thimble has been cast, and is decorated on the outside with floral motif. Around the bottom is a groove, which continues all the way around. Slightly damaged.
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hornby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-18F154
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval elongated silver thimble dating to the 17th century AD. The thimble is complete constructed from a sheet of silver soldered along the edges with the side seam clearly visible attached to a separate domed top soldered to the almost straight sides. A plain band runs around the top of the body of the thimble separating the dome. Ten evenly spaced circular motifs are stamped immediately above this upper band. The body and most of the dome is punched with square indentations, giving a 'waffle' effect and decorated with oval shaped bands possibly representing strap work conjoi…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ribble Valley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4AED26
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval or modern shaped lead alloy palm guard or needle pad. Probably used by a leather worker judging by the depth and shape of the impressions. Dates from between c1600 and c1980. The length is 47mm, width 23mm, thickness 25mm, and the weight is 113.72g.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ormskirk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-549387
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy thimble dates to between c1500 and c1550 AD. The thimble had a comparatively flat crown. It has a spiral pattern of hand stamped indentations on the sides and crown, with a plain band around the base. The thimble has been squashed but is almost complete. The only missing section is the majority of the folded over part of the band so that for the majority of its circumference it is now only one layer of metal thick. Length is 23mm, width 29mm, depth 12mm, and the weight 3.48g. See also KENT-397D73 (very similar), SWYOR-97C0E5, LON-E95502, and LVPL-21AB35.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WHALLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6ADCD1
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy thimble. Hand indented with a thick basal collar (2.5 to 3mm high). Likely to have been manufactured in Germany. Dates from c1500 to c1700 AD, probably c1500 to c1550 AD. The length is 24mm, the diameter is 19mm, and the weight is 6.37g.
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2013
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Euxton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DA37A3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 'beehive' thimble of two piece construction. It consists of the rolled decorated tube and a plain domed top. The decoration does not appear to be machined. It consists of seven bands of a cable motif, each going in the opposing direction to the two bands adjacent to it. There are remnants of what appears to be a gilded finish in the pattern. The top appears to have had a white metal finish, possibly silvering or tinning. The rim of the thimble has been largely lost, leaving an uneven edge. Dating has proved problematic due to the lack of a convincing parallel. Overall s…
Created on: Sunday 15th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bradford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-752695
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2012-T907: Specialist Report Silver 17th Century thimble from the Lancashire - probably the Preston area Date: Post Medieval (1600 - 1700 AD) Date of discovery: c. 2002 Circumstances of discovery: Found whilst searching with a metal detector on a metal detecting rally. The finder cannot recall where he made the find Description: An incomplete silver thimble formed in two parts - only the lower body survives as the domed top is lost. The body itself is crushed flat and the seam is split. The sides are decorated with conjoined annulets. At the base is a …
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
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Record ID: LANCUM-CD27E8
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thimble of closed construction, dating from the early post-medieval period (c. 1500 - 1700). The crown is shallowly domed and the walls below flare to the open end. A spiral of drilled sub-square pits (probably) start at the centre of the crown and continue around the walls to the base; corrosion product obscures on the crown. The walls of the thimble are thin (1 mm thick). The metal is a dull dark red-brown in colour. The length is 19mm, the width is 22mm and the weight 4.70g. A similar example can be found on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database, Record ID: HAM…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 7th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-68A493
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval to Modern lead alloy palm guard or needle pad. It is more or less circular in plan. Objects like this would have been wrapped in cloth then strapped to the hand to protect the palm when tightening cord or using awls and punches in an industry such as leather working or sail making. Palm guards of this design are thought to have been cast on occasion in oyster shells. Dates to between c1600 and c1970 AD. The diameter is 40mm and the weight is 94.85g.
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-966A0E
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, silver, post medieval thimble, AD.1600-1700 of two-piece construction. The thimble is conical with a domed top, the lower third of the piece is decorated with 2 putti supporting what appear to be two conjoined hearts engraved with initials *AH* to the side are what appears to be the initials *ug* possible a makers mark. The body of the thimble is formed from a strip of sheet metal wrapped around to form a cylinder with the top added. The thimble is covered in regularly spaced round holes. There is a seam that runs up the side of the piece and around the top which is slight…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 23rd December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-FC0A41
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval lead or lead alloy palm guard. It is ovate in plan with a broad shallowly domed cross section. The flat side has a central figure of eight depression. Dates to between c1700 and c1900 AD. Such objects would have been wrapped in cloth of leather with a hole above the depressions. They were then strapped to the hand to protect the palm when tightening cord or using awls and punches in an industry such as leatherworking or sail making. Palm guards of this design are thought to have been cast on occasion in mussel or oyster shells. Portable Antiquities Scheme record number I…
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barrowford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-443F43
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, lead palm guard, probably dating from the 17th-20th century (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1800). It is a rounded oval, with convex and concave surfaces. Dating of these artefacts is very difficult; the earliest examples seem to date from the 17th century, although they may have been in use right through to the 20th century (Bailey, 1993, page 64). This example has a patchy, cream patina. The diameter is 77mm.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-6B89AB
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy thimble probably dating to c.1500-1650. Manufactured from 0.75mm sheet copper alloy with no visible seam. The body slightly flares and the circular indentations are arranged in a spiral form leaving a plain band at both the top and bottom. The rim of the thimble is bare and separated from the indented area by an incised girth line. There are several vertical tears at the base of the thimble. Similar to examples described in Holmes, Edwin F, 1991, "Sewing Thimbles", The length is 22mm, the width is 20mm and the weight 4.44g
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-5127BA
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval elongated silver thimble dating to the 17th century AD. The thimble is complete constructed from a sheet of silver soldered along the edges with the side seam clearly visible attached to a separate domed top soldered to the slightly tapering sides. A band runs around the top of the body of the thimble separating the dome decorated with two lines of stamped indentations at either side of an incised solid line. Above this upper band the thimble is decorated with a floral design in the form of petals. The body is decorated with three evenly spaced oval shaped bands are stam…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th April 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-88843C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver Post Medieval (c. 1800-1900) thimble. The outer face of this thimble has machine-made horizontal lines of circular indentations. The apex is decorated with a series of concentric circles comprised of small square indentations, radiating from a central raised pellet. Twenty one horizontal rows of hexagonal indentations cover the upper two thirds of the thimble to form a honeycomb pattern. The size of the indentations becomes gradually larger towards the base, and the pattern finishes with a circumferential groove. The length is 27mm, width 22mm and the weight 4.22g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-2865D2
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver thimble, dating from to 1750 - 1900AD. The thimble is flattened probably by a post-depositional event and would have probably originally been domed with slightly flared sides and a rounded top and has the original owners name "Jane Scorefill" engraved around the bottom. The thimble appears to have been drilled although it could be cast, it is often difficult to distinguish between cast and hammered thimbles. A series of closely and unevenly set sub-circular dents cover the sides. The drilled pits begin at the top and continue in a continuous spiral to the base in a regular …
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLETON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-94D80C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval to Modern lead alloy palm guard. It is shield shaped in plan, and plano-convex in section and profile. The convex section would be placed in the hollow of the artisan's hand and the flat side would have been used for either applying pressure, or having pressure applied to it. In this case a series of groups of shallow linear incisions suggest it was used in the cutting of something, possibly leather or heavy cloth. Dates to between c1600 and c1980 AD, probably from c1850 on due to patina and colouration of the lead alloy. Length 65mm, width 42mm, thickness …
Created on: Friday 14th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-9B80F7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible cast, lead palm guard, probably dating from the 17th-20th century (c. AD 1600 - c. AD 1800). It is a rounded oval, with convex and concave surfaces with a 3.5mm hole at the centre. Dating of these artefacts is very difficult; the earliest examples seem to date from the 17th century, although they may have been in use right through to the 20th century (Bailey, 1993, page 64). This example has a patchy, cream patina. The length is 40mm, the width is 36mm and the weight 28.82g.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.