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Primitive Locks and Keys

by Augustus Pitt-Rivers

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Plate IV

Fig. 35B and Fig. 36B. Two keys found in Roman villa at Hartlip, Kent (‘Collectanea Antiqua’).

Fig. 37B and Fig. 38B. Two keys found at St. Pierre-en-Chastre, Oise. Gaulish. From drawings taken by Gen. Pitt-Rivers, in the Musée de Saint Germain.

Fig. 43B. Represents the ancient mode of carrying keys on shoulder, adapted to the British key found in Caburn. (Fig. 41B.)

Figs. 1C and 2C. Modern Scandinavian bolt and key (‘La Ferronnerie’).

Figs. 3C to 5C. Modern Scandinavian bolt and key, with spring A. From a model presented by Dr. Engelhardt, and used in Norway.

Fig. 13C and Fig. 14C. Two iron keys from Roman villa, at Hartlip, Kent (‘Collectanea Antiqua’).

Fig. 15C and Fig. 16C, Fig. 17C. Three keys from Anglo-Saxon graves at Sarr, Kent (‘Archæologia Cantiana’).

Fig. 19C and Fig. 20C. Two keys from Björkö, in the Gulf of Bothnia, 8th or 9th Century A.D.

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