Record ID: NARC-821CD9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Thimble of Modern date (AD 1800-1900). The object is composed of a pressed metal sheet, the upper dome is missing, and the lower band is composed of a short flattened separate fragment.  The main body of the object is flattened and distorted with evenly machine stamped square pits on the upper surface, forming a lattice pattern. The lower portion of the object has a pair of circumferential raised borders, composed of two sets of four incised lines.  The inner surface is undecorated. Height (composite): 18.29mm, Width: 26.38mm, Thickness: 0.36mm, Wei…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-8027BD
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Thimble of Modern date (AD 1850-1900). The object is composed of a pressed metal domed form with an outer lower plain foot ring, with evenly machine stamped square pits on both the side and upper surfaces, forming a lattice pattern. Below this is a portion without latticework and a single raised circumferential lower band. The inner surface is undecorated. There are portions missing from the foot and sides of the object. Height: 14.61mm, Width: 17.59mm, Thickness: 0.91mm, Weight: 1.7g The objects form has been distorted by post-depositional agencies. T…
Created on: Thursday 11th April 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-5540C3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast open-topped thimble or sewing ring with four or five horizontal rows of hand-stamped pits, possibly in a right hand spiral arrangement ascending the wall. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500 Diameter: 19.1mm, Height: 11.3mm, Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 5.40gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-51B902
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy thimble of Medieval date. The fragment comes from the top of the timble, and has one small central stamped indentation at the top, the sides are decorated with small, widely spaced circular indentations in irregular vertical rows. It is corroded.  Diameter: 17.34mm Weight: 1.58g
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-D4C9DE
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. A small conical pressed metal thimble with a plain basal zone and machine-stamped pits on its wall which appear as if arranged in horizontal rows. A rectilinear grid or lattice of larger pits covers the domed top. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Height: 13.5mm, Diameter: 13.3mm, Thickness (wall): 0.7mm, Weight: 1.51gms
Created on: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-4766F9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy thimble dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1650-1750). It is conical in shape with a domed top and a series of small circular indentations about the outside.  This is similar in style to some of the Dutch thimbles from this period. From about 1650, Dutch thimbles were made in one piece, and this technology was brought to England when John Lofting, a Dutch immigrant, was granted an English patent for a thimble-making machine in 1693. See: https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/textile-equipment/#16th-_and_early_17th-century_thimbles.
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3FAB8F
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval to early post medieval cast copper alloy domed thimble with oval holes spiralling up to the crown and an incised line around the base. There are no maker's marks visible. The thimble has been crushed and has split open.
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: OXON-1A376D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval to post-Medieval copper alloy thimble of 'beehive' type, dating to c. AD 1350-1500. There is a small tear in the bottom edge. The sides are slightly curved and have twelve turns of spiralling circular indentations. The surface of the thimble is corroded, particularly on one side, and it is difficult to establish in which direction they spiral. On the sides of the thimble the circular indentations have been arranged in such a way as they appear as vertical rows of dots. The thimble has a mostly compact dark green pati…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 18th April 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-155494
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bury
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead-alloy possible palm guard of post-medieval date (c.AD 1600-1900). The object is sub, triangular in plan, with rounded corners and rectangular in section. One face is flat with a central curvilinear groove and light areas of pitting, possibly caused by a needle. The reverse is slightly convex with the same central curvilinear line. Dimensions: Length 26.3mm, Width 25.1mm, Thickness 4.2mm, Weight 14.51g. These objects are believed to have been used to protect people working with tough materials like leather or thick canvas, protecting their palms from need…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-146E89
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy thimble. Cast beehive-shaped thimble with a plain basal zone and hand-stamped pits which ascend the wall in a left hand spiral arrangement which is carried onto the domed top, though leaving a central unworked zone. Polished overall by wear in use. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1400-1500 Diameter: 19.0mm, Height: 20.8mm, Thickness (wall): 1mm, Weight: 5.28gms
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-AF9406
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Bury
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead probable palm guard of post medieval date (c.AD1600-1900). The object is oval in plan and D shaped in section. One face is flat with small dimples, possibly caused by impacts from a pin. The reverse is convex and with knop like projections and a rough texture throughout. It is likely it has this upturned shape to fir in the palm of a hand. The object has a cream patina. Dimensions: Diameter 27.8mm, Thickness 8.1mm, Weight 35.18g. These objects are believed to have been used to protect people working with tough materials like leather or thick canvas, protecting th…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: IOW-99EB07
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval copper alloy thimble, c.AD 1700-1800. The outside of the thimble has twelve horizontal lines of square indentations or incised pits, these line up, are very regular, and are roughly arranged in two fields. Running around the lower edge of the thimble are three incised line. The inside is undecorated. The thimble has been slightly squashed.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-99A34E
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval milled copper alloy thimble, c.AD 1700-1800. This thimble has regular milled indentations across both the cap and sides. The base has been torn off and lost and the thimble has been flattened.
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-836D08
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy thimble of late Medieval date, from around AD 1350 - 1500. It has a single incised/engraved groove round the rim, straight sides and a pointed, dome-shaped top.  Small unevenly positioned pits cover the dome, and they are in vertical lnes on the walls. Folds in the metal are visible insdie the rim. Measurements are; length 18.7mm, width 19.4mm, thickness 16.6mm and weight 4.0g. A parallel from the database is SF-8E9B74.  See also https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/textile-equipment/#Dating_a_medieval_thimble
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-2EB4B7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two complete Medieval copper-alloy thimbles. The thimbles have slightly sloping sides and a domed top. The surface is decorated with individually punched circular holes in a continuous anti-clockwise (left-hand) spiral, starting from a bare 'tonsure' at the centre of the top and ending in a slightly thickened band at the base. One pit no pierces the metal. There is no clear evidence of folding or notches at the base. 1: The thimble is 22.86mm in height, 21.80mm in diameter at the base, 2.10mm thick and weighs 14.09g 2: The thimble is 22.85mm in height, 20.51mm …
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-21AEE9
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval to modern lead leather workers' palm guard, dating to c. AD 1600 - 1900. It is D shaped in plan with a broad shallow domed cross section. The flat side has several random scratches. The other side also has some scratches and some depressions caused by poor casting.  In the middle is a 12 mm in diameter circular depression, which is 2 mm deep. Such objects would have been wrapped in cloth or leather with a hole above the depression. They were then strapped to the hand to protect the palm when tightening cord or using awls a…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-04673E
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy Medieval domed or beehive thimble dating to the 14th - 15th century. The exterior is covered in small drilled pits which spiral up to a small tonsure and a pierced hole in the crown. There is a simple linear band around the opening but no other decoration or maker's marks.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: IOW-9CE74B
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval-Modern copper alloy thimble, c.AD 1850-1900. Pressed metal conical or domed thimble, missing its base due to deposition damage. The walls have round machine-stamped pits in diagonal rows ascending the wall. The top is made separately and soldered on with a clear join; the top of the thimble appears to be plain without any pits.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-9CE56D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval complete probable lead palm guard, c.AD 1500-1700. The object is a sub circular disc that has been slightly dished in order to fit more comfortably in the hand. The artefact has been made crudely, and there are numerous scratches. One longitudinal deep groove may be related to its use, or might be post-depositional damage.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-884B1C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Post Medieval lead palm guard, c.AD 1600-1900. The guard is leaf shaped in profile and D-shaped in section. This side has scratches on it and a shallow circular impression in the centre. The guard has a dark grey patina.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.