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Description: | An incomplete Roman cast copper alloy locking bolt from a tumbler lock. The lock is rectangular in plan and cross section. It has an openwork rectangular panel consisting of three squares with two 90° triangular cells in each. The openwork panel is flanked by two incomplete protruding bars with old breaks. One bar extends 7.83mm out perpendicularly from one edge of the openwork panel on one side. The other bar extends 13.70mm out parallel to the panel and is rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section.Lock-bolts formed part of a tumbler-lock and would have been opened with a slide key. Similar lock bolts were discovered at Vindolanda in contexts dating between AD 120 and 180 (Birley, 1997, p26) and a number of examples are recorded on the database, cf WAW-73CEE6.
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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