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Description: | Incomplete sheet copper alloy key, folded longitudinally to form a pipe stem, with a simple square bit at one end of the stem, and missing half of the bow at the other end. The bow has been constructed by cutting the sheet metal and folding it laterally and bending it into a loop with the terminal curved back on itself. Half of the bow is missing which would have formed a loop mirroring the existing one on the other side. The stem is circular in section but almost tear-shaped at the end where the sheet is extended and elongated on one side into the bit.Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 72, Fig.46, No.562, which is dated from the late 12th to the early 14th century.Margeson (1993) illustrates a key with a similar bit, rolled hollow stem, but a different bow on page 160, Fig.118, No.1268, which is dated from the 12th to the 13th century.
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