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Description: | Small key made from folded copper-alloy sheet. Most of the bow is missing, but the surviving fragment of perforation shows that this was circular and that the bow was made from a single thickness of sheet. The sheet had to be fairly wide to accommodate the bow, and the stem is made from folding the sheet's width in on itself from the bow end to form a tapering shape. The uncut bit is simply made from two wider thicknesses of the sheet, with a gap at the fold to produce a pierced tip. Surviving length 27 mm, width (length of bit) 10 mm, thickness 3 mm. Dating such a simple key is tricky; perhaps late medieval or early post-medieval.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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