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Medieval padlock (profile, plan, plan and the upper and lower view).
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Birmingham Museums Trust, Angie Bolton, 2017-11-22 12:18:35
Title
Medieval padlock (profile, plan, plan and the upper and lower view).
Description
English: Medieval (12th to 16th centuries) barrel padlock: The copper alloy padlock is in the form of a horse wearing a saddle and harness. The horse is hollow throughout.

The head of the horse is cylindrical which tapers towards the mouth. The eyes are a lozenge within an oval cell. The ears are triangles protruding at the back of the head. The mane on the head is depicted by a double-stranded elongated chevron. The neck is covered by a mane depicted by linear grooves. On the back of the horse two transverse ridges depicts the saddle. A horizontal ridge continues from the lower edge of the saddle around to the front, below the neck depicting the harness. Below the harness on this face there is a sub-rectangular hole whose edge is slightly damaged. The undamaged area has a small bar on the upper and side edge. The sides of the upper portion of the front legs depict a harness pendant hanging from the harness. Around the pendant this portion of the leg has a low-level double-stranded elongated chevron. The lower portion of the legs are missing, the breaks are not recent. The backside of the horse has a trefoil shaped hole. This portion of the horse is not otherwise decorated. The back legs are slender, realistic in their shape and undecorated.

There is further damage on the horse in the form of two holes, one on the side and another at the back of the head. This damage is due to corrosion.

The padlock measures 43.96mm wide, 32.89mm long from the ears to the lower edge of the legs, 17.97mm thick across the backside and weighs 36.35g.

The padlock is most similar to LVPL-1E8DF7 and KENT-1D958A on the PAS database. Other recorded examples on the database include LEIC-82EAE6, LEIC-CE40BE, SOM-0510EF, SF-67C2E5Z, LANCUM-CB2F97, WMID-25A164, and DENO-729F97.

Goodhall (1990) illustrates a similar style padlock, No. 3665, was found in a 12th to early 13th century context, but comments these Type C padlocks as they are categorised continue into the 16th centuries.

Goodhall I.H. 'Locks and Keys' in Biddle, M., 1990 Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester Clarendon Press: Oxford
Depicted place (County of findspot) Warwickshire
Date between 1100 and 1600
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 876157
Old ref: WAW-565B1A
Filename: WAW565B1A.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/638127
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/638127/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/876157
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License version 2.0 (verified 15 November 2020)
Object location52° 06′ 16.2″ N, 1° 30′ 32.15″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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