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Medieval padlock
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Suffolk County Council, Andrew Brown, 2010-12-14 14:44:47
Title
Medieval padlock
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A cast copper-alloy bolt and spring mechanism from a Medieval barb-spring padlock. It comprises an L-shaped arm with conical base from which extend horizontally two rectangular springs. Rising from the base is a vertical flat rectangular plate terminating in a cylindrical aperture with faceted exterior surfaces through which the hasp of the padlock would originaly have passed. The two springs are flat, rectangular in form and taper slightly to flattened ends that have central circular apertures. The surfaces of the object have extensive toolmarks. It measures 25.09mm in height, 31.58mm in length, 7.55mm in width/thickness, and weighs 7.28g.

This is the bolt and spring mechanism from a barb-spring padlock similar to Type C barrel padlocks from Winchester (Biddle, 1991: nos. 3665-3668). These suggest a Medieval date for the current example, perhaps in the 13th-15th centuries AD.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 1200 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1200-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 417271
Old ref: SF-BF1DC4
Filename: LKH_SF-BF1DC4.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/309033
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/309033/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/417271
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