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Description: | A copper-alloy key handle in the shape of a lion. The handle is solid and rectangular in section it is 46mm in length and 20mm in width. The attachment end has a circular hole, bored into the handle, which is 6mm in diameter. The handle is then decorated by a tranverse groove, and relief decoration in the form of a hatched lozenge-shaped pattern, there are small circular dots in the centre of some of the lozenge-shapes. This decoration is present on three sides of the rectangular section, it is 9mm square. Beyond this the lions hind legs and back feet emerge, the back of the lion then continues undecorated until its front legs, feet, mane and face emerge. These may have been added using engraved lines. The lions jaws are open but its mouth is empty. The underside of the handle is flat and undecorated. A similar handle, which is likely to be for a knife, rather than a key, was found in Wattisfield, sf479, find ID sf3834. It differs from this lion as it has incurving petal-shaped decoration at its attachment end and a fish in its mouth. Similar handles, thought to be for keys, have been found in a context of 100-280AD Fishbourne (Cunliffe1971, no. 144, p 118 and 121) and at Caistor-on-Sea (Darling 1993, no. 695, p118 and 121). These two examples also differ from this handle as they too have incurved petal-shaped decoration at their attachment ends. | Subjects: | Handle | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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