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Description: | Incomplete cast coper alloy rotary key. Only the head and a short section of the shaft survives. The shaft, which is cylindrical in form, is hollowed at the head and at the point of the break but it is not clear if the whole length of the surviving shaft is hollow. The head consists of two rectangular bits with a cleft between. One bit is a simple plain rectangle, the second is more complicated in form with a L-shaped notched ward.Keys of this type are typically dated to the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, c.1200-1500.
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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