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Primitive Locks and Keys

by Augustus Pitt-Rivers

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Plate III

Figs. 13B and 14B. Modern wooden tumbler or pin-lock from Yarkand (India Museum).

Fig. 13B. Longitudinal section showing pegs raised by key A preparatory to withdrawing the bolt B.

Figs. 15B to 20B. Reproduction of Roman tumbler lock (Mainz Museum) (Lindenschmit).

a. Key. b. Bolt. c. Block, e. Hasp. f f. Tumblers. g. Spring. h. Plate of spring.

Fig. 26B. Bolt for single tumbler found in the Forest of Compiègne, Roman (‘La Ferronnerie’).

Fig. 27B. Key to raise single tumbler lock found at Nonfous, Switzerland, Roman (‘La Ferronnerie’).

Fig. 29B. Key found in Germano-Roman tomb at Niderolm (probable use shown in fig. 9B, Plate II.).

Fig. 30B and Fig. 31B. Anglo-Saxon keys found at Sarr, in Kent (‘Archæologia Cantiana’).

Fig. 32B and Fig. 33B. Two keys from Bornholm, in the Baltic (‘Mémoires de la Société Royale es Antiquaries du Nord’).

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