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Description: | A complete copper alloy casket key of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. The key is made from a single folded sheet of copper alloy. The bow is sub-rectangular in shape with a circular hole at the exterior end and with slightly filed serrated edges above and below. The stem is 3.49mm in thickness, oval in section and hollow. The bit is in line with the stem and consists of two evenly spaced rectangular cut notches. The key measures 25.93mm in length, 8.98mm in height, and weighs 1.62g. A similar example to this key is noted on the Portable Antiquities Database from Norfolk and dated to the Post-Medieval period (see NMS-0E92C1). It is likely that this example is of late Medieval to Post-Medieval date. | Subjects: | Casket | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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