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Description: | Medieval key for a barrel padlock with bow and bit in same plane. Bow with round aperture but polygonal externally and with two small lobes at top. Solid sub-circular sectioned shank stepped out at end to a rectangular bit with rectangular aperture, notched at top and base. From the base of the bit a square-sectioned inverted T-shaped projection. Numerous iron examples were recovered from late 11th- to 13th-century contexts at Coppergate, York (Ottaway and Rogers 2876-7 and 3060-1, nos. 12640-12653). Broadly similar keys recorded by the PAS include examples from Owlesbury, Hants (HAMP-2A6FE4), Tarrant Monkton, Dorset (SOMDOR-8549D6) and Edlington, South Yorkshire (SWYOR-6F2B76). In Norfolk examples have been found in Ashmanhaugh, Beeston with Bittering and Norton Subcourse. Length 55mm. Bow width 11mm. Bit width 20mm. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robbins, Katherine - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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