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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy lock hasp of Roman to medieval date. These objects appear to have been used to lock chests and caskets. A similar object was found in a mid to late 3rd century context in Colchester (see N. Crummy; 1988; pp. 89, no. 2223) and there are also several comparable examples from medieval layers in London (see G. Egan; 1998; pp. 81-4).Like most of the London examples, this piece would probably have been an elongated oval shape in plan but it is broken off at the wider top end. The bottom end is defined by a transverse ridge above a chevron-shaped groove. At the very end is an angled knob which would have served as a handle to aid opening of the box. This knob has two transverse grooves and a central ridge on the underside and terminates in a hemispherical knop, decorated on its upper surface by five or six grooves which radiate outwards from the centre. The hasp is of trapezoidal section. Just over half way up from the bottom, emanating at a right-angle from the flat underside, is the hasp loop. This loop consists of a trapezoidal frame with a large sub-oval aperture.The object measures 35mm long, 9.2mm wide and 13.7mm deep. The weight is 7.62g.
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