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Description: | A cast copper-alloy padlock or barrel lock slide key of probable Medieval to early Post-Medieval date. It has a flat, rectangular stem with faceted edges that give it a trapezoidal section. At one end is a flat, D-shaped bit set laterally to the stem at an angle of ninety degrees and with a D-shaped aperture. At the opposite end of the stem is an integral suspension loop that has a projecting transverse rectangular collar at join of stem and terminal, a central circular aperture and three projecting lobes at the top edge. The entire object has a dark green patina and extensive tool marks on all surfaces. It measures 39.84mm in length, 5.59mm in width (at stem), 1.45mm in thickness and weighs 2.21g.This is probably a slide key for a padlock or barrel lock of Medival to Post-Medieval date. It appears to belong in Biddle's Type A group with bits set laterally to stems and finds similar, although not identical, parallels in iron examples from Winchester (Biddle, 1991: nos. 3721, 3723). It isa likelt to be of later Medieval date, the decorative elements suggesting a possible later date range running into the early Post-Medieval period, c.1400-1600 AD.
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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