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Description: | An unusual medieval rotary key, with a collared C-shaped bow. The collar has engraved oblique lines and both terminals of the bow end in a stylised animal-head, with incised simplified features. The shank is hollow and oval, and there is an elaborate bit with one long and one short asymmetrical cleft in the base and one broad cut-out in the outside edge. There are horizontal grooves in both faces. This example may be compared with Egan (1998) fig. 88, no. 313 and dates from the late 13th-15th century.
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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