Record ID: NMS-E6C671
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver thimble. Two part construction consisting of a domed top and separate sheet for the sides, the join between which can just be seen. The edge to edge join of the side sheet is now partially separated. There is a border around the base consisting of two lines of caballing with a plain space between. There are two ovals positioned on opposite sides of the thimble, one containing a worn crowned female bust facing left with a K to the right, the other a crowned male bust facing left with C to one side and R to the other. The rest of the surface is covered with closely spaced annulet…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tilney St Lawrence', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B096F3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver thimble, now distorted. The top is missing, and the thimble has broken down one side along the original join. Decorated around the base with a plain border between two pairs of engraved lines with transverse lines between them. Above the border the sides of the thimble are decorated with closely spaced annulets. Post-medieval. For a similar example see the Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (377, fig.830) 16th - 17th century. Compare also the thimble or sewing ring lacking a top from Hampshire (TAR2005/6, ref 830, p.162, 2006 T393)
Created on: Monday 10th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 14th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pinchbeck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1045F8
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and distorted silver thimble. The top is missing and the remaining sides have been cut or broken vertically and folded twice. Most of the external surface is covered with closely spaced lines of punched squares forming a waffle pattern with a plain border above and below. There is an engraved inscription around the base between two engraved lines ] VSE * VERtEV[ ('use virtue' or possibly 'use virtuously'). The rest of the border, and therefore any further letters in the inscription, are obscured by the folded metal. Height 22.7mm. Weight 3.9g.17th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh Castle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F03442
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete silver thimble. Cut across the top and lengthways and unrolled. Decorated around the base with a band, plain except for a worn and unreadable stamped makers mark, with ridged or beaded border on either side. Above the band the surface is covered with closely spaced stamped annulets and two worn stamped ovals, one containing a heart with crossed arrows and possible flames above, the other a standing figure of cupid with raised bow. Cf. a similar example in Holmes, 1976, 15, fig.6, b. 17th century. If the two cut edges join the original diameter would have been c.14mm. Height…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-190428
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver thimble with beaded base, circular pits surrounded by annulets on the sides and top, and the maker's initials MC above an empty heart-shaped cartouche that is flanked by supporters in the form of birds reguardant. On the interior immediately above the base are two very indistinct stamps, the lower one possibly a lion. Height 16mm. External diameter 15.5mm. Internal diameter 14mm. Weight 3.15g. Compare with broadly similar examples on the PAS database, from London (LON-09EC77), Taynton, Gloucestershire (GLO-48C9D7) and Tendring, Essex (ESS-5848EO). Late 17th - firs…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Walsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DCA318
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular fragment of the side of a silver thimble, broken on three sides. Two engraved lines form a border at the rim, above which are lines of evenly spaced square dots with a plain section to one side and a plain band above before a break. There is no trace of a makers or hall mark, and the dots are hand punched. The break at the top is slightly uneven, as if broken across further punched dots.
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2009
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-807D05
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble. Damaged and distorted with traces of stamped dots over top and sides, now very worn. Height at least 15mm. Original diameter at base circa 18mm. 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th February 2013
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Record ID: NMS-D642B1
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble. Conical top with central dot surrounded by a clear space before concentric rings of closely spaced dots. Sides decorated with vertical lines of closely spaced dots and a pair of parallel lines around the base. Now distorted. Original diameter circa 16mm. Height 14.5mm. A1.
Created on: Monday 21st January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2013
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Record ID: NMS-F52502
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy thimble. Domed top and slightly angled sides covered with multiple closely spaced stamped triangles. A border around the base consists of a double rib at the rim, an otherwise plain band with four stamped stars with a single rib above. Diameter at base 18mm. Height 23mm.16th - 17th century. See LIN-7B5382 for a broadly similar example.
Created on: Thursday 28th February 2013
Last updated: Thursday 28th February 2013
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Record ID: NMS-DE9DE8
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy thimble. Composite, formed from a rectangular sheet rolled to form sides with overlapping vertical seam and separate, domed top inserted into end. Top undecorated, sides covered in multiple rowes of very regular stamped dots with a border around the base of two lines with a wider line below. Height 24mm. Diameter at base 17mm. Probably 18th century.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-DECBE7
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probably medieval copper alloy thimble, now squashed flat with splits from the base. Very worn, with only traces of mutiple stamped dots. Height circa 20mm.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-DEE726
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy crotal bell. Rectangular suspension loop, two holes in upper half, median rib, round-ended slot in base, iron pea. Very worn traces of cast 'sunburst' decoration. Height 36mm. Diameter 28mm. 17th Century.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2013
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Record ID: NMS-730206
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble. Domed top only, slightly distorted, decorated with a single line around the edge and four concentric rings of stamped dots around a central stamped dot. Original diameter circa 13mm.Weight 0.9g. Probably 17th century.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 10th June 2013
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Record ID: NMS-ADBBD3
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble or possibly whistle or unidentified object. Fragment of silver sheet with no original edge surviving, engraved or stamped on one face with crescent-shaped fields filled with short transverse lines, forming a 'fish-scale' pattern reserved on a field of staggered crosshatching (brickwork pattern). Weight 0.4g. The pattern is a more complicated version of that found on a 16th century thimble from Kent (SUR-B665D3). Probably 16th - 17th century. Q1
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: NMS-AD874B
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy sheet thimble. Two engraved lines around the rim, the sides and all but the apex of the slightly pointed crown covered in tiny punched dots. Height 14mm, base (slightly squashed) 15 x 12.5mm.
Created on: Friday 12th June 2015
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-987EF6
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy thimble. Sheet metal with fold marks visible on the inner face and a single notch in the lower edge. Plain border around the edge, with a partial single line, the rest covered with closely spaced punched dots except for the apex of the rounded crown. Several of the punched dots have worn through. Diameter 16 - 18mm. Height 20mm. 14th - early 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
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Record ID: NMS-76701D
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble. Separate soldered crown missing, vertical butt join now separated, two lines of engraved rocker-arm around the lower edge between which is a stamped maker's mark H, and IW in lightly pecked dots. The I is partially obscured by scratches and may possibly be T or L. The rest of the sides are covered in closely spaced low relief stamped annulets. Surviving height 17mm. Diameter at base circa 16mm. Weight 4.8g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2016
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Record ID: NMS-F4DC36
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval silver thimble. Angled sides, domed top, two grooves around the lower edge above which is a very faint line of tiny alternating longer and shorter vertical dashes with a wide plain border above, the upper sides and top covered with multiple closely spaced pecked dots. Distorted around the base. Height 18mm. Weight 2.6g. Circa 17th century. See 2007T680 (NMS-E88A33) for a similar example.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-31919C
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy tailors ring. Slightly angled sides decorated externally with three lines of closely spaced blind holes. The upper edge is abraded. Diameter 20.5mm. Height 9mm.
Created on: Monday 24th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-D9DA56
Object type: THIMBLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of post-medieval silver thimble, perhaps half surviving. Separately soldered top missing, thickened rib around lower edge with a border above which is plain except for at least two engraved letters ]...[ P, broken across the first making it indecipherable. The sides are decorated with a zigzag reserved on a field of punched dots forming a waffle pattern, with a plain border above. The sheet is splitting and broken along the engraved lines defining the zigzag. Surviving height 23mm. Diameter (if half survives undistorted) circa 18mm. Weight 3.0g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
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