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Description: | A cast copper-alloy rotary key of probable later Medieval date. It has an oval bow that is flat, oval in section with a central circular aperture. At the juncture of bow and shaft is a raised collar. The shaft itself is oval in section and rectangular in form. At the bit end it has a projecting conical terminal. The bit itself is rectangular in form with single rectangular cleft at the inner edge and two rectangular clefts at the outer edge. The entire object measures 44.02mm in length, 14.52mm in width at bow, 3.04mm in thickness, and 5.14g in weight.This is an incomplete rotary key of probable Medieval date. It finds close parallels in examples published from London in both copper-alloy and iron (Egan, 1998: nos. 298, 300, 305), and is of probable c.13th-14th century AD date 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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