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PADLOCK
Unique ID: PUBLIC-025611
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A small copper-alloy padlock, now very corroded. It is roughly sub-oval in shape, with outcurved base with a small point in the centre. The sides have a concave curve to the corners, which each have a bump, probably the remains of separate copper-alloy rivets holding the two plates of the padlock case together. Above these is the curved copper-alloy hasp, which retains a copper-alloy loop, perhaps part of a chain link.
One plate has an indentation in the lower centre which looks like a keyhole partly blocked by corrosion. The other plate, the reverse, has a pair of projections between and slightly below the riveted corners.
Height 32.27mm (from base to top of hasp) 40.38mm in toal, Thickness 5.55mm, Weight 14.1g,
It has proved difficult to find a precise parallel for this padlock. It is not particularly like any of the many other post-medieval padlocks recorded on the PAS database, and it has been suggested that it may be from a 17th-century strongbox.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 40.38 mm
Thickness: 5.55 mm
Weight: 14.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th September 2015 - Sunday 20th September 2015
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Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Bury (Metropolitan District)
District: Bury (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Elton (Metropolitan District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD7812
Four figure Latitude: 53.60409506
Four figure longitude: -2.33394127
1:25K map: SD7812
1:10K map: SD71SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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