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Description: | A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman key handle. The shaft of the handle is formed of two moulded reels, which are oval in cross-section. The first of these reels is 5.54mm thick, width 14.74mm and height 16.17mm. The second increases in size to a thickness of 10.37mm, width 14.45mm and height 18.23mm. The first reel is hollow with forming a socket 7.93mm x 8.32mm that would have taken the shaft and bit of the key which is likely to have been made of iron. At the oposite end, after the second moulding, the handle starts to divide to form what would originally have been the loop of a bow. The handle has broken across the bow and it is no longer possible to determine the original shape of the bow. Both breaks across the bow are very abraided making the original cross-section of the bow difficult to detemine, although it was possibly oval.See PAS records NMS-E1F1E4, NMS-F013E0, HAMP-C3D013, HAMP-515186 and SUR-86EB57. Also see Crummy, N. 1983, p.125-126, no.4156.
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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