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Description: | Padlock of Winchester Type C. The bolt survives complete along with the case although most of the hasp is missing; apart from the iron barbs, it seems to be made entirely of copper alloy. The case is hexagonal in cross-section, 11 x 11 mm, with rounded angles. At one end is a keyhole, which may originally have been T-shaped; through this can be seen a mass of iron corrosion which has split the case at this end. Projecting from the top is the stub of the hasp, which has been broken off at a decorative circular perforation. The other end has the bolt remaining in situ, and a facet of the case has broken away at this end allowing a view of the interior. The bolt is L-shaped, with the horizontal arm inside the case split into two. Each of the two halves of the arm would have had separate iron springs, which were compressed by the key allowing them to be withdrawn from the case. The vertical part of the arm is complete with a decorative circular perforation and an incurved inner edge, and ends in a (now damaged) circular loop which originally engaged with the pointed end of an L-shaped hasp to complete the locked rectangular loop. The padlock is corroded, but faint traces of engraved transverse lines can be seen all around the case. A nice example of an object which is rarely found even nearly complete. | 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: | 1066
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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