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Description: | A complete copper-alloy key handle. This handle is in the form of an open work fleur de lis, measuring 55.93mm in length and 32.70mm in width. At the centre of the top edge of the central fleur there is a rounded protruding knop. There are grooves between each fleur forming a cross, beneath the three openwork lobes there is a recess with a retangular base and triangular top. At the base of the fleur de lis there is a central transverse moulding with a central transverse groove running through it, this narrows to a rectangular short shaft which is hollow in its underside and has corroded iron within it, from the stem of the key presumably. A very similar key handle has been discovered at Colchester and has been dated to post 150AD (Crummy 1983, 126, fig 142), also see SF-FA1131, from Wickham Skeith.
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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