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Description: | A cast copper-alloy rotary key of probable later Medieval date. It has an circular bow that is flat, oval in section, with a central circular aperture. The shaft itself is oval in section, rectangular in form, and at the bit end has a projecting conical terminal. The bit itself is rectangular in form with single opposing rectangular clefts and a transverse groove on one face. The entire object measures 39.26mm in length, 11.81mm in width at bow, 3.39mm in thickness, and 4.51g in weight.This is a 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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