File:Medieval barrel padlock, Horse-shaped padlock (FindID 711357).jpg

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Medieval barrel padlock: Horse-shaped padlock
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Oxfordshire County Council, Anni Byard, 2015-03-17 13:40:56
Title
Medieval barrel padlock: Horse-shaped padlock
Description
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A complete cast copper-alloy zoomorphic barrel padlock dating to the medieval period. The object is a barb-spring (barrel) padlock case dating from the 12th to mid 13th century AD. The padlock is zoomorphic, in the form of a stylised horse, based on other examples and rather than a dog. The body of the animal, which accommodated the barb-spring mechanism, is hollow and roughly oval in cross-section. The fore legs bend forwards slightly and are larger than the rear legs. The hollow head projects forwards and slightly downwards with a circular mouth and short upright ears. There is a hole in the back of the head. The muzzle of the animal is deocrated simply with multiple incised transverse grooves.This is the only deocration on the animal. The bolt and hasp are missing. A similar example can be seen in Bailey 1997: 43, no. 4 and another parallel for this padlock was found in excavations in Winchester (see Biddle 1990: 1011, fig. 313, ref: 3665). The suggested date range is 12th to early 13th century, though barrel padlocks were used from the 12th to 16th century. Such padlocks would probably have served to secure small caskets.

Similar padlocks have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: BH-DA5807; BUC-310083; BERK-F6BF18; DENO-45B8B6; DENO-729F97; DEV-491751; ESS-BEB511; HAMP3430; LVPL-1E8DF7; NLM-5CBA15; NMS-1F3472; NMS-3C0C96; NMS-D562B4; SUSS-748045; SWYOR-E9B1C4; SWYOR-DA4617 and WMID-25A164.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Hampshire
Date between 1100 and 1250
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1250-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 711357
Old ref: BERK-82AD36
Filename: OX2014869.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/509481
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/509481/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/711357
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Object location51° 09′ 55.8″ N, 1° 10′ 05.38″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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