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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy Roman lock bolt. The bolt is formed from a rectangular body with a small rectangular shaped section cut away from one corner. At the opposite end to the cut out, the body extends into an elongated bolt ?arm? or shaft. The main rectangular body is perforated with two subsquare cut outs (rounded ends) and four circular cut-outs. The teeth of a tumbler lock key would have engaged these to open the bolt. The extended arm of the bolt is rectangular in plan and a flattened rectangular in section. The object has pale green patina with traces of iron corrosion to both sides, near the rectangular shaped cut away. The object is 54.1mm long, 3.4-5.7mm wide and weighs 9.82g. The bolt arm is 20.5mm long, 5mm wide and 1.9mm thick. Similar lock bolts are illustrated in Crummy, 1983, The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9, figure 136. | 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 | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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