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KEY (LOCKING)
Unique ID: DOR-367423
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A broken and incomplete key. The bow is broken but was originally lozengiform with knops at the angles. The stem is hollow and tapers slightly to the broken tip. There is a small bit with a rectangular ward and single small angular cleft on the inner edge. The key is in two parts. Ward-Perkins type V.
Date: Medieval - c. 1200 - 1400
Dimensions: 78.68 mm x 24.02 mm x 10.66 mm
Weight: 23.43 g
Reference: Ward-Perkins, 1940, Medieval Catalogue, p. 138 - 140, plate XXX, No. 30, Type V
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 78.68 mm
Width: 24.02 mm
Thickness: 10.66 mm
Weight: 23.43 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 017274
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
To be known as: Owermoigne
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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