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Description: | Medieval/post-medieval cast copper-alloy casket ?barb-spring? padlock, 12th to 16th century. All parts of the padlock are present except for the bolt and spring. The padlock is circular in section and appears to be animal-shaped with the case representing the body, the four knops on the bottom of the case representing legs and the hasp representing the neck, head and open mouth of the animal. The face of the animal is worn and no features could be identified. The keyhole is intact and there is smaller slot parallel to the keyhole on the back of the head of the animal/the back of the hasp. At the opposite end of the padlock (the bottom of the animal) are three square holes filled with brown copper corrosion, and this may be part of the mechanism. Tiny patches of original surface have survived and have a dark green patina, all other exposed surfaces are light green. It measures 33.28mm long, 14.42mm wide, 31.82mm high and weighs 20.94g. Similar casket padlocks can be found in Egan, G. 1998. The Medieval Household. Daily Living c. 1150-c.1450, pages 92-99, ref. 242-257., and Ottoway, P. and Rogers, N. 2002. Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York, pages 2866-2867, 2870. | 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
1599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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