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KEY (LOCKING)
Unique ID: NMS-C572C1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete medieval copper alloy key dating to the period c. c. AD 1300 - 1450. The bow is in the form of an openwork quatrefoil with a moulded circumferential collar at the junction between bow and shank. The shank is cylindrical and hollow, the interior now filled with earth and corrosion product. The channel expands into an incomplete bit, the surviving section comprising four wards arranged in two opposing pairs. It terminates in an old break.
Ward Perkins (1940) considered a hollow shank to be indicative of a casket or chest key (Egan 1998, p.111).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1450
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 58 mm
Width: 21 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 17.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 11th August 2017 - Friday 11th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 14104
Other reference: IND28092017JS
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Long Stratton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM1991
Four figure Latitude: 52.47297414
Four figure longitude: 1.22307312
1:25K map: TM1991
1:10K map: TM19SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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