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I found these two Thimbles stuck togethet, 1st for me!

wow,  nice one / ones Botty,  good on you mate
 Alan

Cheers Alan, the smaller one that was inside has been protected from the elements & survived quite well.
If only they were Silver.  ;)
After all these years I've still only ever found one Silver Thimble!

Well found BB, It always amazes me the strange places we find thimbles, if they are in the ruins of a house then fair enough but in the middle of a field?  ???

Richy.

Hi all

Nice find burp
Looks like a young maiden had put one inside the other then lost the two,

Its very strange that most of these thimble are found in the middle of nowhere.

i was told the reason we find thimbles in the middle of nowhere (fields etc ) is.....the workers only really had the clothes they stood up in and repaired them as they worked.. so they lost their possessions too !....byron

Hi Byron

Good point mate !

When you look at a nice piece of fertile arable or pasture land its very unlikley its always been that way.
I used to think why would anyone plant their worldly goods  in a middle of a field where it would be very unlikely that they,d find it again.

There must have been some sort of markers, trees walls mounds ect

Regards
Phil

The past history of the spindle whorl will tell you a lot, especially those found where a well had been.

It is a well known fact that women accompanied thier menfolk during ploughing and gathering time.

During the winter they would spin the wool in a very dull situaton, remember that windows in those days were taxed according to the size - and they always said that size does not matter   ;D - and they would gather the wool in the summer and spin in the winter.

The ladies would gather around wells and chat about the girl up the road while they would knit what they spun from spindle whorls. There is a lot that can be said about this but not here. One day I will write about that situation.

As for those that are found in the middle of a field don't let us forget that hedgerows and ditches were always changed, this happened during the Thatcher period when a lot of hedgerows where pulled up to make the fields larger.

It was only up to the time of the field boundary act came about in the 1700's were they permanent.

There has been a lot of conjecture about field boundaries, some of them were correct but most were off the mark. The best place to look is your local parish reister of tithe maps, they can tell you a lot about what went on then. If you know who owned the land, say Mr Jones, they will get tithe map out for you to inspect. As far a I can recollect there was no charge made.

During the early period when farm workers did not know how to read and write they knew if the farmer wanted them to plough the Arnhem field or the Well field they knew where to go by the name desciption.

I will add an article I wrote many years ago if I can find it for you to read.

 ;D

Nice finds botty,i found a copper thimble last year and it still had the ball of cotton stuffed in-side it.

Nice one Charles,   They were also used by farmworkes too  when they were gathering the crops, hay & bales  ect,  helped them grip,
Alan