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Description: | The incomplete, corroded iron spring mechanism from the bolt of a cast padlock of probable medieval date. The artefact has a circular end plate. From one surface of the end plate a pair of springs protrude. On one of these the side barbs survive very well.
A slide (or squeeze) key would have squeezed the barbs against the springs such that the bolt could be removed from the case (see Egan 1998, 92; fig. 64). | Subjects: | barb spring | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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