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Description: | Cast copper alloy rotary key. The angles of the lozenge-shaped bow are embellished with lugs. The collar between the bow and stem consists of two three mouldings. The octagonal-sectioned stem widens towards the bit. The solid stem is bored at the end to form an off-centre conical socket (depth of socket 24mm, maximum diameter of socket 5mm). The bit is preferentially worn on one side and is cut by one longitudinal and two transverse clefts. Probably fourteenth to fifteenth century in date. An example of Ward Perkins Type VI (1940, 140-141, fig.42, pl. XXIX). Length of key 82.5mm, length of bow 26mm, height of bow 27mm, length of bit 23mm, depth of bit 19mm. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1300
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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