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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy padlock with a square-section case with a pierced rectangular arm with an oval aperture, and a fixed bolt that is circular in section and tapers to a point. Three of the faces of the case are decorated with sinuous pairs of lines with opposed punched triangles. Part of the corroded iron spring is still intact within the case and the sub-square end plate has a T-shaped aperture and a bifid slot at a right angle to the aperture, where the key was inserted. The opposite end of the case is capped with iron corrosion product which are the remains of the ends of the iron strips of the spring that would have been riveted to a cast copper alloy circular plate, now missing, with a projecting rounded tab and a collar to house the fixed bolt. The key would have had a T-shaped bit at the end of a long shank that would have slid into the case and released the spring as the strips slotted into the gaps in the bit. Copper alloy seems to have been used only for small padlocks, mainly for caskets and cupboards, and the earlier examples from the 12th century tend to have copper alloy springs (Egan, 1998, 93).Egan (1998) illustrates similar more complete padlocks on page 93 & 96, Figs.65-66 & 69, Nos.243-244 & 250, which are dated from c.1200-1350.Read (2001) illustrates a similar padlock on page 73, Fig.47, No.569, which is dated from the 12th century.
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