Wanting to make appropriate locks for my own chests, I needed to sort out what I was finding. At a point I thought I aught to put it into HTML as this format is little different than a GUI screen in a database. Besides, my friends might find something here useful. (We are friends, right?) I'm glad to have input or have advice about lock design, sources for information or any other way this site might be improved. Email your thoughts - contact me at - Lodin. Meantime, browse around.
Typified by locks on the Mastermyr Tool Chest, The Oseberg Banded Chest, Swallowcliffe Downs chests, Winchester chest lock, numerous Birka Chamber grave chests.
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Typified by numerous examples of keys appropriate to this method. Used on doors and chests.
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Typified by a center turning key, requiring contact with the bolt and the key rotates to move the bolt.
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Typified by the bolt with attached spring being removed to open the container. Components were found in the Mastermyr Toolbox identifying three sperate locks and four complete locks of this sort found in the Birka Chamber Graves and one in the Oseberg Ship Burial, Chest 178, p. 121-124.
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Typified as portable locks.
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