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Description: | Incomplete copper-alloy barb-spring padlock. The case survives nearly complete, measuring 29 mm long; in cross-section it is nearly circular, 13 mm in diameter, but is slightly facetted to form an octagon. Although it is encrusted with hard soil and corrosion products, a pair of grooves can be seen around one end and one of the lower facets has oblique groove decoration. The inside of the case is filled with iron corrosion, perhaps from the springs. The hasp rises from the undecorated end of the case, and is L-shaped, extending outwards beyond the end of the case. It appears to have decoration of closely spaced oblique grooves on each face, and does not have the usual decorative circular perforation. A complete but bent circular-section arm, 42 mm long, extends from the top of the hasp. There is a projecting lump on the top of the arm, close to the end of the hasp, and a corresponding projection on the underside of the hasp in the angle of the L; it looks almost as if these are two ends of a rod which has been inserted through the thickness of the hasp, but the encrustations make it impossible to be certain. These padlocks - Winchester type C - date from the 12th to the 16th centuries.
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