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KEY (LOCKING)
Unique ID: LEIC-EA9F03
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy key handle, 69mm long, 30mm wide and 14mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 76.34grams. It consists of a fragment of corroded sub-circular iron shank sitting below a sub rectangular 'collar'. The key has a trefoil terminal formed of three openwork comma shaped loops, merging together into the collar. These terminate in a spherical knop above the central loop.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 150
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 69 mm
Width: 30 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 76.34 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Rothley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5812
Four figure Latitude: 52.702574
Four figure longitude: -1.143093
1:25K map: SK5812
1:10K map: SK51SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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