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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy casket key, dating to the Medieval period (c. late 12th-early 14th century AD). This key consists of a circular bow, a sub-rectangular sectioned collar and solid shank, a projecting pin and a simple bit. The key bow is very worn on its interior edge where the key may have become abraded from suspension. The rest of the key shows no unusual signs of wear. It measures 40.76 mm long; 12.89 bit width; 4.14 shaft width; 3.34 mm thickness at bit; 1.99 thickness at bow; 0.86 mm thickness at abraded bow end. The key weighs 4.42 grams.Cf. Read 2001, Fig. 45, No. 538. See also Egan 1998, p111.
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