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Description: | Copper alloy Medieval barrel lock or padlock in the shape of a horse. The horse's head is featureless, but decorated with crossed double grooves mimicking a bridle. There is a circular opening at its muzzle, filled with iron errosion. There are two raised lines across its back and one across its neck, forming the harness and sadle. The sides and neck are decorated with thin parallel lines filled with smaller lines, perhaps to suggest armour, and one side of the neck has grooves forming a mane. The two forelegs remain, but the hindlegs are missing. The object appears to have been hollow, but is now filled with iron errosion - presumably the remains of the locking mechanism. A small strip of copper alloy protrudes from the horse's chest.A similar example was found during excavations at Winchester (Biddle 1990, p.1011, fig. 313, no. 3665), and was thought to date from the 12th to mid-13th century. The PAS database records LVPL-1E8DF7, SUSS-748045, BERK-F6BF18 and BH-DA5807 show other, similar examples. Length: 41.45mm, Width: 34.20mm, Thickness: 15.20mm, Weight: 30.9g
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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