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Description: | Copper-alloy key, missing its bit. The bow is circular internally, but externally is decorated with a pair of stylised three-dimensional animal heads, one on each side, which appear to be gripping the far end of the bow in their mouths. The stem is octagonally facetted. It begins with a short rounded section, which is divided from the rest of the stem by a ridge. Beyond this, about 15 mm of the stem is solid, and then it has an off-centre longitudinal hole which has broken through on one side. Total surviving length 56.5 mm. This key is of Winchester Type 9, and the animal heads date it to the medieval period, but no good parallel has been found for the design and so it cannot be dated at present any more closely than this. The metal is a very pale, but apparently stable, grey-green. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Geake, Helen - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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