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Description: | A possible Roman cast copper-alloy key handle. This possible handle consists of an oval loop above a solid rectangular waisted part which has a square hole with corroded iron in the centre of its underside. It measures 43.2mm in total length and 28.9mm in width, at its widest point. The oval loop measures in 28.9mm width and 20.5mm in height externally and 17.6mm by 8.5mm internally. It has a central longitudinal protruding ridge with two longitudinal grooves on each side below this. There are also some transverse grooves across the loop, which are likely to be later, possibly agricultural, damage. The two terminals of the oval loop do not quite meet in the centre of the rectangular part.
The rectangular part, which the loop is sitting on, measures 23mm in height and 27.9mm in width and has a thickness of 15mm. It is waisted in its centre, where it has a width of 19.6mm. Above and below the waisting there are two grooves which run all the way around the rectangular part. The square hole filled with iron corrosion in the centre of the underside of the rectangular part measures 8mm by 8mm in size. The corroded iron is posibly the remains of an iron key.
Despite its unusual shape this possible key handle is similar to the more common fleur de lis Roman cast copper-alloy key handles, see Crummy (1983, 126, fig 142). These also have a hole in their underside which held an iron key. It therefore seems most likely that this object is an unusual Roman copper-alloy key handle. | 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
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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