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Description: | A copper-alloy key, cast in one piece, flat and measuring 53mm in length. This key is likely to be a rotary key perhaps for a casket, it has a projecting pointed tip and an uncut rectangular-shaped bit measuring 9mm by 7mm in size. The stem is solid and rectangular in cross-section and the bow circular with an external diameter of 12mm and internal diameter of 4mm. This key is likely to be Medieval in date, a similar key with a uncut bit, projecting tip and bow was found at Winchester and dated to the 13th century, however this example is smaller, measuring only 30mm in length (Biddle 1990, 1033-1035, Fig 330). | 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
1400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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