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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9888865, member: 8267&quot;]The style of lock (hinged from the top, with a projection that engages with the adjacent key) is referred to as a &quot;drop fork lock&quot;, and examples can be found on medieval chests from various countries -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496823[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>From Sweden -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496826[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ironbound wooden money chest with drop fork lock for turning key and adapted for two padlocks. Rogslösa church, Östergötland. Photo by the author.</p><p><a href="https://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/h/safes/20-money-chests/medieval-sweden/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/h/safes/20-money-chests/medieval-sweden/" rel="nofollow">https://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/h/safes/20-money-chests/medieval-sweden/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This one on a chest at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England -</p><p>[ATTACH=full]496825[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-billingford-hutch-and-the-moonwort-fern-a-medieval-mystery-solved" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-billingford-hutch-and-the-moonwort-fern-a-medieval-mystery-solved" rel="nofollow">https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-billingford-hutch-and-the-moonwort-fern-a-medieval-mystery-solved</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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