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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy key dating to the medieval period. The key comprises a hollow, circular-sectioned stem, which widens towards the bit. The tip is hollow and badly damaged. There is a wide collar around the stem next to the bow. The bow is badly damaged, due to the break. But the bit survives intact. There is a channel below the stem and the bit is only joins to it via a very narrow and short section of the bit. The bit is roughly rectangular in shape and has four wards which extend downwards, forming three clefts. On the base of these there is a horizontal groove. Similar to Egan, p113, 313.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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