On the Development and Distribution of Primitive Locks and KeysPitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
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On the Development and Distribution of Primitive Locks and Keys
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox
Locks and keys
Figs. 37B and 38B, Plate IV., are from drawings taken by me in the
Musée de Saint Germain, and were found at St. Pierre-en-Chastre, Oise;
others are figured in M. LIGER'S 'La Ferronnerie.'[13] Fig. 39B, Plate
IV., is in the British Museum, and was found within the entrenchments
at Spettisbury, near Blandford; it was presented to the Museum by Mr.
J. Y. AKERMAN. Figs. 40B and 41B, Plate IV., are two found by me in
pits in the interior of Mount Caburn Camp, near Lewes.[14] Fig. 41B is
of large size, 8 inches in length, and sickle-shaped. All the objects
discovered in this camp proved it to be of the late Celtic period; the
tin coins found associated with these remains, the bone combs,
pottery, and other objects belong to an age anterior to the Roman
conquest. Fig. 42B, Plate IV., is a similar one found by Mr. PARK
HARRISON in similar pits in the neighbouring camp of Cissbury,[15] in
Sussex, which has been shown to have been occupied by people of the
same age as Mount Caburn, viz.: the late Celtic period. It will be
seen that some of these keys, all of which are of iron, have a small
return or pin at the end, which is adapted to fit into a hole, and in
the Cissbury specimen this end is flattened, as if to enable it to fit
an aperture of special dimensions.
[13] 'La Ferronnerie,' tome i., p. 320.
[14] 'Archæologia,' vol. xlvi., Plate XXIV., "Excavations in
Mount Caburn, conducted by General PITT-RIVERS, F.R.S., in
September and October, 1877, and July, 1878."
[15] 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute,' vol. vii.,
p. 425, Plate XI., fig. 12.
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