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Description: | A worn cast iron object, possibly a medieval music key. The finder quite plausibly suggested that it once belonged to a lyre. The object features an expanded shaft which is c. 11.4mm at its terminal, having been c. 8.1mm at the junction of handle and shaft. At the terminal there was indentation whose form is now obscured by corrosion product. The handle takes the form of two conjoined wings with a central circular perforation. There is a pair of objects illustrated in Egan (1998, 244; fig. 190) which feature square-shaped apertures. It is posited that these were music keys, used to tighten the square-ended bone keys of stringed musical instruments, although such an indentification cannot be definitive.
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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