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Description: | A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy door- or chest-key of Ward Perkins (1940, 134-135) Type 1A. The fragment consists of the bit, stem and part of the bow before terminating in an old break.The bit has an L-shaped cross-section. It has not been possible to ascertain from the image whether there is a perforation in the bit. The stem is short and appears to be rectangular or square in cross section. The bow opens out to form a single loop before terminating in an irregular height; different on either side.Ward-Perkins (1940, 134) describes such keys as 'a pre-Conquest form which continued in [its] use'. An 11th/12th century date has therefore been attributed to this artefact. Similar objects have been recorded on the database, in particular KENT-A8F4F6, KENT-F54095 and NMS-665387. All of these examples have been given an earlier date of c. AD 700-900. This example has therefore been recorded as . AD 700-1100.The fragment weighs 25 mm from base to top of broken handle and is 13mm wide. The bit is 17 mm long and 5 mm wide. it weighs 4.8 gms
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