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Description: | Roman (1st to 3rd centuries) copper-alloy lock pin: The lower portion of the lock pin is a sub-rectangular shaft which is rectangular in section and terminates with a broken edge. The break is not recent. At the upper portion of the lock plate and integral to the shaft there is a circular head. The upper surface of the head is convex with a central domed pellet. The surface of the lock pin has a well developed mid grey/green patina. It measures 19.22mm long, 15.85mm diameter and weighs 6.77g.A similar lock pin is illustrated in Crummy (1983, Nos 4142 & 4143). Crummy states that copper-alloy lock pins are most likely to derive from small locks for boxes or cupboards and that 'the visible and sometimes the moving parts such as the lock-plate, bolt, tumblers and key were of copper alloy, while the internal parts such as casing were of iron. Larger locks fitted on doors would almost certainly have been made of iron for greater strength' (ibid, p. 123-4). The Colchester examples date to the mid 1st to 3rd centuries which probably applies to the recorded example.Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-9, Colchester Archaeological Trust
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