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Description: | Tiny conical copper-alloy clapper bell of the kind often known as a "Norse" bell. Incomplete and slightly crushed, the small amount of surviving rim appears to have had almost a sub-rectangular section with rounded corners, but whether this is the original shape or not is uncertain. The bell has alternating apex-up and apex-down triangular perforations, perhaps originally eight, around the rim; only three now survive complete. There are two more apex-down triangles (both now blocked with iron corrosion) at the top of the bell. At the very top is a rectangular suspension loop with a small circular perforation. Inside is a mass of iron corrosion from the clapper and/or the suspension device for the clapper. These bells are known from Anglo-Scandinavian (Viking) sites in eastern England (including one excavated from Cottam in Yorkshire and some detector finds from Suffolk) but are not common finds. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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