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Early medieval key
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Derby Museums Trust, Anja Rohde, 2008-09-06 10:34:39
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Early medieval key
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English: Early medieval key; cast copper alloy key of the mid-late Saxon period, c.550-900. The key has a large, drop-shaped plate with openwork decoration. It has a central bar which branches off, giving two pointed oval voids at the top and a lozenge void at the bottom. The shaft of the key is hollow and oval in cross-section. The key bit is minimal, seemingly having only two short, flat tines, the upper of which is now missing. There is a sturdy, circular suspension loop at the top, in the perpendicular plane to the key handle.

Length 59.4mm, width 21.5mm, thickness (shaft) 6.8mm, thickness (loop) 12.3mm, weight 17.25g

Ref: "Medieval Catalogue, London Museum", pages 133-136, especially keys A 3086, A 3087, A 13482 & 30.93 (figs 1-4 on plate XXIX) Compare the key from Barham in East Anglian Archaeology’s “Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material from Suffolk”, illustrated on page 122, figure 6.58, which is of similar shape, although less ornamental. Hinton’s “Southampton Finds volume II” also has an illustration of keys of similar shape, from the mid-Saxon period, pages 50-51, figure 21.

Mills also has similar keys, page 61, especially keys AS132 and AS133
Depicted place (County of findspot) Nottinghamshire
Date between 550 and 900
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FindID: 230905
Old ref: DENO-1548C5
Filename: E6226 key.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/186539
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/186539/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/230905
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