The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon : a history of the early inhabitants of Britain, down to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity ; illustrated by the ancient remains brought to light by recent research / by Thomas Wright ; with numerous engravings on wood (1902)
sented in our cut.The ring is at right-angles to the ax.le of the key, which isalways very shert. These keys are geneially so small anddelicate, that they can only have been used for locks of smallcaskets, which required the least possible force to turn them.The larger keys are often of iron, and… … Roman Lock and Key;<, from Colchester {Camtilodumim). of iron, the upper example cit!:ht inches long, and the other fiveinches and a half, so that i\w.y probably belonged to doors.Similar latch-keys were fo\nid in the Roman villa at Hartlip inKent; and they have been met with elsewhere on Roman…
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