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Description: | A large cast copper-alloy medieval rotary key. The hollow rectangular shank is decorated with double incised diagonal lines. The shank has an acorn collar and a lozenge-shaped bow. On each of the three outside angles of the lozenge bow is a trefoil knop. The rectangular bit has asymmetrical clefts and channels including one channel along the outside edge. The bit has four horizontal grooves on one side only. The complete length of the key is 109.8mm, the dimensions of the bow are 41.6mmx30.2mm, the dimensions of the bit are 16.2mmx33.8mm and the weight is 62.91g.
Ward Perkins states that lozenge-shaped bows with elaborate angles are most common in the 13th and early 14th centuries (1940, 138-9). | 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: | 1200
1350 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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