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KEY (LOCKING)
Unique ID: SF7446
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Part of stem and bit from a large copper-alloy key of LMMC type VI. The stem is hollow and squarish in section, with rounded corners, measuring 8 x 8.5 mm at the old break; the surviving length is 54 mm. The bit is elaborate, with two channels on either face ending in two clefts in the front edge, and a deep channel in the lower edge cut across by two more clefts. The bit is 32 mm long and the bit and stem together are 23 mm deep.
Class: London type VI
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1300
Date to: AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54 mm
Width: 23 mm
Thickness: 12.5 mm
Weight: 45.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2001
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