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Description: | Barb-spring padlock. The case is made from copper alloy, and is a flattish rectangle in cross-section. At one end it is broken, but remains of a vertical division into two spring holes can be seen. Here it measures 8 mm wide by 7 mm tall. It runs straight for a short distance, then flares out to 13.5 mm wide before gently curving back to 8 mm wide and running straight down to the keyhole end. The total surviving length is 27 mm. One face is undecorated, but the other has four crudely engraved longitudinal lines which follow the curving sides. There is also a hole in this face; it is hard to decide if this is deliberate or accidental. On each side is a low ridge, At one end of the undecorated face is a projection which rises and turns a right-angle to form an L-shaped hasp. The rising part of the hasp has a decorative circular perforation; the right-angled part is much narrower and has lost its end. This hasp would have fitted into a loop on the separate bolt; the springs were attached to the bottom of the bolt and would have slid into the case.
At Winchester these padlocks date to the 12th to 16th centuries AD, with a particularly close parallel coming from a 15th-century context (Biddle 1990, no. 3666). Further examples with the swollen centre can be found on the PAS database at NLM-B38528, NLM2785 and SF9284. | 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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