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Unique ID: SOM-F596B8
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A fragment from the handle of a late medieval copper alloy key, probably dating to c. AD 1300-1500. The fragment consists of the upper section of the shank and lower half of the bow. the shank is solid and sub-circular in cross section, it has been bent and terminated in an old break. The juncture between it and the bow has been elaborated with a central oval moulding flanked by collars. The surving bow consists of the partial frame of two hollow pointed-oval lobes, both truncated by old breaks.
Dimensions: length 30.4mm; width 19.4mm; thickness 7.8mm; weight 7.16g.
Ward-Perkins (1940: 140) classifies similar keys as his type VI, which he dates to the 14th and 15th centuries, cf. plt. XXIX Nos. 13-18.
Class: Ward-Perkins type VI
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.4 mm
Width: 19.4 mm
Thickness: 7.8 mm
Weight: 7.16 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2017 - Wednesday 1st February 2017
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Other reference: SCC receipt: 019339
4 Figure: ST9102
Four figure Latitude: 50.81747396
Four figure longitude: -2.12912413
1:25K map: ST9102
1:10K map: ST90SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Ward Perkins, J.B. | 1940 | The London Museum Medieval Catalogue | London | HMSO |