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Description: | A complete post-medieval crotal bell cast in pewter. The upper half is plain and has two sound holes c. 6mm in diameter. Of similar proportions are the two sound holes on the lower hemisphere, close to the central casting seam. They are joined together by a slot and are perpendicular to those on the upper half. Either side of the slot the lower half is decorated with a 'sunburst' pattern formed of six 'rays' which increase in width as they tend towards the centre of the hemisphere, and duly decrease in width as they tend towards the sound holes. Within one half of the 'sunburst' is a semicircle which bears a T-shaped 'founder's hammer' motif. The iron pea survives within the crotal. The suspension loop is high, rectangular, with a U-shaped perforation: loop - L: 10.1mm, W: 12.7m, Th: 4.0mm. Such a mark within a semicircle, in conjunction with a high rectangular loop suggests a late 16th- or early 17th-century date for this artefact (cf. Bailey 1995, 40-41; ref. 9). | Subjects: | bell | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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