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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy barb-spring barrel padlock of Medieval date (c. AD 1200 - c. AD 1400).The barrel case is octagonal in cross-section throughout its length. At one end of the case is a projecting sub-rectangular arm (tab). The tab has a circular hole throughits centre. At 90 degrees to the tab, parrallel to the case, a bolt bar would have been located. At the surviving end of the barrel is a T-shaped hole in which a key fitted.This padlock was probably used on a casket (Egan 1998, 92). Parallels from London (e.g. Egan 1998, 93; ref. 244) have come from pre-fourteenth-century contexts, although elsewhere they have been found in fourteenth contexts (Geake 2001, 50-51).
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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