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Description: | A cast copper alloy casket key, The long oval bow is openwork with a large curvilinear "keyhole" shaped aperture at the back and a smaller oval one in front. The stem is short with a constriction at the projecting tip. The bit is rectangular with a single square cleft at the to of the leading edge at the bottom of the bit is a small right-angled projecting ward.Reference: Ward Perkins, Type IADate: Early Medieval - c. 1000 - 1100Dimensions: 33.65 mm x 14.86 mm x 4.73 mmWeight: 9.41 gKevin Leahy has commented that functionally similar keys were found at Flixborough where they will have dated from the 8th or 9th century. They were classified as 'slide keys'. The type is pre-conquest and are seen as being late 8th/9th century to 11th century. See Rogers, N 2009, 'Copper alloy keys' in D H Evans and C Loveluck, Excavations at Flixborough, Vol. 2, pp. 193-5, items 1967-8. The oval loop on this one differs from the Flixborough keys (which were round) and suggests that this find is more likely to be early Medieval. (Kevin Leahy, 2012, pers comm)
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