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Record ID: IARCH-DC466E
Object type: SLIDE KEY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A T-shaped iron slide-key.
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Springhead (Temple II)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-567512
Object type: SLIDE KEY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy probable slide key from a barb spring padlock, of probable Roman dating (AD 43 to AD 410). Less than 25% of the slide key is present, consisting only of part of the handle. The handle is sub pentagonal in plan, and rectangular in section. A 'tear drop' (pointed oval) shape void is present in the handle. It measures 59.70 mm in length, 37.72 mm wide and 3.02 mm thick. It weighs 30.9 g. The possible slide key is a dark green colour, with an even surface patina. Slide keys were used during the Roman period, to compress the springs in padlocks with …
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-E421E6
Object type: SLIDE KEY
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy slide key of possible Roman or Anglo-Saxon date. Only the bit end survives intact, the remainder of the object now missing due to old breaks. The stem of the key is flat, rectangular in form and at its base folds forwards at an angle of 90 degrees to form a bit with rectangular notch. The front face of the object has punched and incised decoration comprising a border on each side of the incomplete end formed from a vertical row of punched semi-circles within a vertical incised groove. Mid-way down the length of the surviving fragment this decoration is …
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NLM7072
Object type: SLIDE KEY
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
Hexagonal shank, looped handle at the top, most of it is broken away. Collared ‘D’ shaped bit with the curved section attached to the shank, crown on the terminal side of the bit.
Created on: Monday 3rd March 2003
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NABURN', grid reference and parish protected.