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Description: | Copper-alloy rotary key with lozengiform bow, sub-square sectioned hollow shank broken at collar (2 joining pieces) and remains of complex symmetrical bit with vertical cleft, outer part missing. Openwork within the bow consists of a cross with a round aperture in each angle and an additional aperture in two flanking knops (one broken). A knop at the proximal end of the bow is hollow. Length >93mm. Bow width 37mm. The design of the bow is extremely close to that of several other keys found in Norfolk, at Bracon Ash (HER 55519), Hainford (HER 50072, PAS NMS-D5ABD1), Hevingham (HER 39947), Hevingham (HER 41687, PAS NMS-9E9D00), Letheringsett with Glandford (HER 33796; PAS NMS-A154D6), and Stokesby with Herringby (HER 41137, PAS NMS-BADOF6), and an example from Brookland in Kent (PAS KENT367). Dates to the 13th-15th century.
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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