Did Ancient Romans use metal thimbles? What were they like?
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Unfortunately, the Italian Wikipedia page doesn't cite a source for its claim. I'm certainly not aware of any securely-dated thimbles from Roman contexts here in the UK. I did a keyword search on reports of small finds from Pompeii and Herculaneum, but couldn't find any mention of thimbles there either.
I found a number of sites that repeat the claim of thimbles found at Pompeii and Herculaneum. They all seem to use the same image (that image also appears alongside the claim on Pinterest) to illustrate the supposed Roman thimbles.
However, it seems the picture actually shows 19th century thimbles found on a farm in Tennessee!
To the best of my knowledge, only one thimble has been found in a securely-dated context earlier than the sixth century (at Ephesus). That example is thought to be an import from China.
One of the oldest known examples was found in 2010, in a context that has been securely dated to the seventh century, in excavations at Punta Secca in Sicily. However, so far we have less than a dozen thimbles that can be securely dated to the period from the sixth to the ninth centuries so there is no real evidence for the extensive use of thimbles up to that date.
The use of thimbles appears to become more widespread in the Eastern Mediterranean from about the ninth century onward.
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