Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten waxed paper label affixed to object with string reads: 'Bronze Key. N. D Draw 7.'
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Author: David Kay

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card in possible hand of Geoffrey Bushnell notes: 'London Mus. Mediaeval [sic] Catalogue Type VI. 14th or 15th Cent.'
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Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Bronze key, hollow shank, quatrefoil head.'
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Author: maa

Context (References)
cf: Museum of London (1940) 'Medieval Catalogue' London: London Museum Catalogues
Event Date 1940
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Key with quatrefoil bow, cylindrical pipe shank, and elaborate bit taking the form of a solid cylinder suspended below the shank and pierced with key wards in such a way as to make four 'pincer' shapes. The shank is also decorated with two sets of three circumferential lines, one at the terminus and one at the midpoint, and one set of two circumferential lines near the join with the bow.
Event Date 6/12/2018
Author: David Kay

Context (Analysis)
Cf. London Museum Medieval Catalogue Plate XXIX no. 11-18, especially no. 14 (though the bit is somewhat different in form) - Type VI keys from London. Type VI keys are reported to date from the 14th and 15th centuries. However, the Portable Antiquities Scheme database also includes similar keys (see especially PUBLIC-836050) that are marked as Post Medieval in date. As such, the Period field has been updated from 'Medieval' to '?Medieval; ?Post Medieval'.
Event Date 6/12/2018
Author: David Kay

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Found in bag of twenty objects (nineteen keys and one staff head) (1921.266.1, 1921.266.4, 1921.266.8, 1921.1081-1082, 1921.1085, 1921.1606, 1922.780 A-B, 1923.213.10, 1923.276.20, 1923.1137, 1923.1169 A.1-D, 1923.1203, 1924.654 A and 1948.1705-1706) with handwritten card reading: "NO PROV.", and on the reverse in a different hand: "Spur, Anglo-Saxon, 24"
Event Date 22/1/2019
Author: David Kay