NHER 34469 (Find Spot record) - Roman key handle

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Summary

A Roman openwork key handle found during metal detecting.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM19SE
Civil Parish LONG STRATTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

November 1998. Metal detecting.
H.M. Geake (A&E) identified: Roman key handle.
Very nice cast-copper alloy key handle, an openwork trefoil or fleur-de-lis with slender bars. Where these meet, a narrow neck swells into a rectangular moulding with 2 narrow transverse grooves. Below is another narrow neck before another rectangular moulding which has a hollow base. In this, some on the iron corrosion from the 'business end' of the key can be seen.
Roman.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 18 May 1999.

  • --- Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.
  • KEY (LOCKING) (Roman - 43 AD to 409 AD)

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Record last edited

Feb 3 2011 2:29PM

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