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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman openwork fleur-de-lis key handle.
The handle has a trefoil form with a knob terminal. The central loop is rounded at the top and narrows at the base. The two side loops are shorter and rounded, with flared lipped on there underside. Extending up from the top of the central loop, is a collared knop.
Below the handle is a complex multi-ridged collars on the rectangular-section stem. This then extends into the stub of the iron key stem ?? all that survives is the corroded remains.
A similar key is published in Crummy, p126, 4161 and one is recorded on the PAS database No: SUR-8853E4. It was found in Greywell, Hampshire. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrews-Wilson, Liz - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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