MEDIEVAL KEY (LOCKING)
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

MEDIEVAL KEY (LOCKING)

1300

CC0 — Public Domain
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

TREASURE CASE : 2004 T449 A medieval, miniature key measuring 20mm in length. The terminal is shaped into an open trefoil. It is likely to have been used for a casket or a book cover. The key is silver gilt and dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries.

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