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Description: | Padlock case and bolt, complete except for the backplate. All of the case and the mechanism is made from copper alloy. The case is roughly circular, 23-24 mm in diameter, and has a curved, almost comma-like, keyhole on the right-hand side. The rest of the circular part is decorated with seven unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs. The case is of uneven thickness, being 5 mm thick at the bottom and 9 mm thick at the top. The top is probably deeper to accommodate two additional elements here. First is a longitudinally set loop, and second is a rectangular collar. These serve to hold the U-shaped bolt. One arm of this is circular in cross-section and tapers to a point, which passes through the loop. The other end expands, has a little pierced bump on its outer edge, and then becomes rectangular in cross-section as it passes into the case through the rectangular collar. It then narrows into a spine which has two springs attached to it by a copper-alloy rivet. These would have been squeezed together by a key, allowing the bolt to be withdrawn; the small pierced bump probably held a cord or chain which kept the two elements together when the padlock was open. A very nice example of the type, which is occasionally quoted as Anglo-Saxon. There are no good Anglo-Saxon parallels, but a number of reasonable 18th-century ones. They appear to have been mass-produced. A scan has been sent to the Science Museum for comment; no reply has yet been received. | 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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