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Description: | A cast copper-alloy rotary key of probable later Medieval date. It has a flat lozenge shaped bow with transverse collar where bow and shaft meet. The shaft is rectangular in formoval in section, and hollow at the bit end. The bit is flat, rectangular in form, and with a single rectangular cleft at the outer end. This key measures 38.36mm in length, 13.20mm in height (at bow), 3.00mm in thickness, and 3.29g in weight. It finds parallels in rotary keys published from London (Egan, 1998: nos. 294, 298, 307) and is of probable later Medieval date, c.14th-15th centuries AD, if not slightly later. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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