- Iron tapered key
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Interpretation
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- Large iron key with 4 wards of which that closest to the bow has a rectangular cleft. The other wards were probably originally clefts but have corroded over. In form the door key is probably a Ward-Perkins (1940; 1993, 135) Type VIIA, a common form which dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries; also similar to NARC-C02FC7. London Museum, 1940 London Museum Medieval Catalogue London : HMSO, 135 , VIIA. The object is similar to NARC-C02FC7, SUSS-OB9568 and KeyLON-3202CBon the Portable Antiquities database. The length is 107mm; width is 34mm, thickness 10mm and the weight 37.70g.
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- Stuart Noon
- 18-12-2015
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From Context
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Context: LA_21002
- Subsoil containing a high rate of organic waste
- James Geddes
- 15-7-2015
- Maiya Pina-Dacier 25-7-2015