Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1923.1169: 'Four keys of iron'
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card for 1923.1169 in Cyril Fox's hand notes: 'Medieval or later'
Event Date
Author: David Kay

Description (Physical description)
Accession register entry for 1923.1169 a-d: 'Four iron keys'
Event Date 1923
Author: David Kay

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

Description (Physical description)
Key with circular bow, sub-cylindrical pin shank narrowing slightly to terminus, and single bit with waved form in cross-section. The bit is cut with paired elongate and semicircular key wards in both front and rear edges.
Event Date 5/12/2018
Author: David Kay

Context (Analysis)
Cf. London Museum Medieval Catalogue, especially Plate XXX no. 28 (though this example also has key wards on the bottom edge of the bit) - a Type V key from Town Ditch, Newgate, London. Type V keys are reported to date from throughout the Middle Ages. As such, the Period field has simply been filled as 'Medieval'.
Event Date 5/12/2018
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