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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy open work fleur-de-lis key handle. Measuring 48.78mm in length, 30.8mm in width and 8.5mm in thickness. The fleur-de-lis has a small biconical knop projecting from the centre of the outer edge of the central lobe. The fleur-de-lis is flanked by two small leaves one beneath both of the side lobes. The fleur-de-lis terminates on a rectangular part decorated with three grooves, which can be seen on all four faces. Beneath this there is a rectangular projection with a circular hole in its underside, there are also traces of corroded iron around this part of the handle. The rest of the key was probably therefore most likely to have been iron.
A very similar copper-alloy fleur-de-lis key handle has been discovered at Colchester and key handles of this type have been dated to post 150AD (Crummy 1983, 126, fig 142, no 4161). | 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: | 43
250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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