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Description: | A copper alloy handle for a Roman key in the form of a lion. The iron key is now missing. The remaining part is the head and front of the lion's body, with the lion's mane and forelegs. The interior is hollow. The lion has an open mouth and pronounced brow ridges. The mane sweeps upwards and the rounded ears are visible at either side. The forelegs of the lion are folded by its side, under its head and the paw is divided by a single line. There is a small circular mark with a short line extending from it impressed on the underside. The underside shows signs of wear along the length of the body.
Roman keys with lion handles have been found on a number of other sites in Britain, for example Fishbourne (Cunliffe 1971 p. 121 no. 144), Verulamium (Frere 1984 p. 47 no. 18) and Baldock (p. 136 no. 137). This object resembles the latter in style, dated to the third to fourth century. That at Fishbourne was in a context dated to 100 to 280 AD and is cruder in design. | 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: | 100
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Eleanor Ghey | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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