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© Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Omeka ID 1179
Les Roquetes
Medieval and modern

lock key

MCUT 4653

Object type
key
Production date
1300 / 1350
Fabric
medieval goldsmith
Museum
Museu Comarcal de l'Urgell-Tàrrega
Culture
Medieval and modern
Discovery location
Les Roquetes
Materials
iron
Township
Tàrrega (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Urgell)
Technique
forging
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
51 x 20 x 9 mm
Description
Key formed by a circular eye, a solid stem and a square U-shaped blade. A frequent type in the Middle Ages, it was used to lock portable containers. It was found with an individual adult buried in the mass graves in the medieval Jewish cemetery (FS 164), very close to a set of stacked coins, which must have been in a case which the deceased would carry on his waist.

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