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KEY (LOCKING)
Unique ID: NMS-E97837
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late medieval to post medieval copper alloy key dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1600. A kidney-shaped bow with two internal projections and a moulded double collar at the junction with the shank, solid shank, propjecting pin and simple rectangular bit projecting at right angles to the shank.
See: Read, B, 2017, p. 72, nos. 564 - 567.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 15.5 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 22nd July 2017 - Saturday 22nd July 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: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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