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Description: | a Medieval copper alloy rotary key. It has a hollow stem, incomplete beyond the bit. There is shallow rectangular moulding between the stem and the bow. The bow is incomplete and is an open oval 'C' shape as the result of an old break and much wear. On one side adjacent to the collar there is an irregularly shaped hole in the bow. Most of the bow extends on the bit side of the stem, and there is a small knop protruding from each side of the bow at 7.3mm from where the shank and bow meet. The bit is assymetric and measures 12.75mm x 25.55mm, with a single channel along the wards near the base of the bit. The key is 83.40mm in length and weighs 40.66g. The stem of a key of similar type and proportions was found in Medieval London in a fourteenth century context. (Egan 1998, fig.88, no.313
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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