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A trefoil openwork Roman key handle
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Kent County Council, Caroline Chestnutt, 2014-07-22 10:32:32
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A trefoil openwork Roman key handle
Description
English: An incomplete cast lead-alloy (?) Roman key (locking) dating to the Roman period (43 - 410 AD). Only the handle remains, the shank and key are missing due old breaks. The handle is formed of an openwork trefoil design, with a protruding two-tiered, globular knop extending from the top of the central loop. The trefoil consists of three outwardly expanded loops, the central loop is elongated and larger than than the outer loops; which are sub-circular, one of which is damaged. The trefoil tapers to a narrow waist, then expands to a triple moulded collar which would have been formerly attached to the shank; the collar has a square cross-section.

The key is light grey-brown in colour and has a modern scratch on the collar.

It measures 72.4 mm in length, 39.5 mm wide, 12.3 mm thick and weighs 87.4 g.

A similar example was found during excavations at Colchester and Crummy (1983, 126, no.4161) suggests that keys of this form all date to post AD 150.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date ROMAN
Accession number
FindID: 628746
Old ref: KENT-E2BCA1
Filename: KENT-E2BCA1.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/477462
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/477462/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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