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Description: | Fragment of Roman bronze trefoil-shaped openwork key handle, for a bronze or iron blade. The surviving fragment measures 35.9x23.8x6.2mm and weighs 14.18g.Two 'arms' survive, the outermost of which is D-shaped in section (4.2mm wide), being rounded to the outside. These arms join at the top to give a looped end (also D-shaped in section). Two internal projections create an almost-circular area, broken where the projections fail to join. There is also a projection on the outside of the outer arm.Another projection slightly higher up on the inner arm (3.8mm wide) suggests at creating the same style with the now missing other inner arm. Half a loop extends above it (with a projection between this loop and the complete loop). Presuambly a further missing (outer) arm and loop would have completed the 'trefoil' theme.Crummy dates this type of key from AD 150 onwards.
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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