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Description: | Cast copper alloy bifurcating tap key. The key is broken off at the base, where the shaft is sub-circular in section. The shaft continues for c. 15mm before dividing into the two arms of the key. The arms are arched and taper to flat sub-oval terminals. There is a ridge along the top and down the centre on each side of the arms.A similar tap is illustrated in Margeson (1993, p137 fig. 932) which is dated to the first half of the 17th century. Margeson (1993, p138) notes how "taps with bifurcated keys are seen as an intermediate stage between Medieval tap keys in the form of a cockerel, fleur-de-lis or openwork trefoil, and the flat-topped T-shaped keys of the 18th century. They were used with cisterns." Similar examples on the database are HAMP-AD8358 and YORYM-6AB2D8.
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