Context (Production / use)
Accession Register notes: 'used for hobbling horses before the enclosure of fields.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Two labels, both written in pencil and previously attached to object with string, found with object. One reads: 'Iron padlock with key [used?] for hobbling horses. G.S. Shippey. A 1903.8'. The second reads: 'Key for padlock for hobbling horses on Commons, Cambridge. A 03.8'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Display)
Old display label found with object reads: 'IRON KEY for bar padlock. XVIII Cent. G.S. Shippey. A 1903.8'.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'A ?fetterlock with key.'
Event Date 1901
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (CMS Description)
Iron padlock with key.
Event Date 18/2/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Iron fetterlock with steel key. U-shaped shackle with flat, slightly concave cross-section; cylindrical lock body with slanted ends and a shield-shaped end plate to which the shackle is hinged and through which the keyhole is cut; keyhole resembles a backward facing, angular ‘Y’. Key features a cylindrical handle perpendicular to the shaft and bit; fashioned from a single thin steel plate, folded and bent.
Event Date 5/1/2024
Author: Zahni Blumenthal