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Description: | A poorly cast and poorly finished medieval casket key. It has a circular bow, with a pair of projections at the junction of bow and stem. The stem has a pointed tip projecting beyond the bit; the bit has a recess to front and rear and an oblique groove near the top on the photographed face. There are extensive oblique filemarks over the bow and the stem. Length 42mm, weight 5.24g.A similar but better-made iron key was found in a context of c. 1270-c. 1350 in London (Egan 1998, no. 300). Another similar but larger iron key came from a late 12th- to early 13th-century context in Winchester (Biddle 1990, no. 3813).
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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