See also Guidelines on the X-radiography of archaeological metalwork, which features a cover photo of a post-medieval padlock and an interior photo of a barrel lock. More links here, and an excellent bibliography on the subject, too.
Many more padlocks can be found at the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Database. Some websites selling antique (pre-17th century) locks, for additional reference: Fischer-Antics, Gaukler Medieval Wares.
- Padlocks and fixed locks from the Roman Era in Britain
- Roman padlocks, including barbed spring padlocks, barrel padlocks, springpadlocks, and figural padlocks
- An early medieval padlock at the Musée d'Agen
- Viking-age padlocks from York
- Barrel padlock from York, 10th century
- Padlocks from the Serçe Limani 11th century Byzantine shipwreck
- A medieval barrel padlock
- A bronze padlock and another bronze padlock from medieval Uppsala
- Barrel padlock case, 12th-13th century
- Barrel padlocks (and padlock keys) from York, 12th and 13th centuries
- Barrel padlock found in Hampshire, 12th-14th century
- Iron padlock found on Skye, dating to the 13th-14th century
- Padlock, 13th century; also, an X-ray (along with a modern reconstruction)
- Barrel-padlock found in Berwickshire, dating to the 14th or 15th century
- Detail from St. Leonard rescuing a prisoner, fresco at Zwickenberg, c. 1400-1450
- Iron and bronze padlock with a rectangular lock and flat loop of iron, found with another padlock in Stirlingshire, 15th century
- The dream of the winecup-bearer (fol. 9v), Manasses in stocks (fol. 14v), and allegory of the promised money (fol. 36v) Speculum Humanae Salvationes (BNE B. 19), c. 1420-1440
- Locksmiths in the Mendel Hausbuch:
Albrecht Slo&slig;mid (c. 1425),
Mertein Slosser (c. 1425),
Cuncz Poxstorffer (1434),
Hans Schelhamer (1451),
Ulrich Hoch (1528),
Egidi Held (1595),
Niclaus Wagner (1600)
- St. Pelagia (fol. 214r) and St. Leonard rescuing a prisoner, The Golden Legend (ÖNB 326), 1446
- A small golden padlock (inscribed "de tout" / "mon cuer") in the Fishpool Hoard, before 1464
- Detail from St. Lucy, St. Leonard, St. Cunegunda, St. Nicholas, St. Bartholomew, and St. Oswald by Thomas von Villach, c. 1470-1480
- Thief, Der Renner (PML M.763, fol. 244v), last quarter of the 15th century
- Detail from St. Leonard and St. Sebastian, 1490-1500
- Padlock (and back), c. 1500
- Detail from St. Leonard, from an altarpiece at Klagenfurt, 1514
- St. Leonard from an altarpiece at Klagenfurt, c. 1515-1525
- A wide padlock with its key, 16th century
- The Locksmith, Das Ständebuch, 1568
- Padlock with two keys
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