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Description: | Copper-alloy padlock of Winchester type C. The case is basically cylindrical, but is flattened on either side to give a wide facet which does not seem to carry any decoration; on both faces there is a longitudinal groove above the facet. One end is completely closed and the other end completely open; the open end is now blocked with hard pale green copper corrosion. On the underside of the case is a rectangular slot which runs the full width and nearly the full length of the padlock. It is bordered on one end by a decorative terminal projecting downward from the closed end; at the other end a thick square moulding separates the slot from the open end. On the upper side of the case are one complete and one broken arm. The complete arm has a decorative circular perforation and the other arm has broken across a second similar one. The complete arm rises from the open end and terminates in a small cylinder, parallel to the case, which is blocked with hard pale green copper corrosion. Between the arms are two decorative semi-circular cut-outs. This padlock has some differences from the normal Type C padlock. Firstly there is only one perforated end to the case, which must have been the spring hole; the slot on the underside must have formed a keyhole, the key being inserted at one end and slid along the length of the slot over the springs to squeeze them together so that they could be withdrawn. Secondly there appear to have been two arms on the case, instead of one arm on the case and one on the spring (known as the hasp and bolt respectively). The arm at the spring-hole end is the anomalous one, with a terminating cylinder which is more normally found on the bolt. The two arms were presumably originally identical and both would have held a narrow prong on the bolt (more normally found on the hasp) through the cylinders. | 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: | 1100
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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