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Description: | Small copper alloy bell with in-cast suspension lug with circular piercing. It has been squashed flat laterally. The cast bell itslef had an everted rim (flan breadth 7mm) and a wall height of 20mm, with a flattened top of 14mm diameter from which the suspension lug rises centrally. The lug is 8mm tall and 7mm in diameter, flattened on two sides to a thickness of 5mm through which the piercing is made. In the bell wall, which was 20mm high, is a zone of 6mm depth containing five ornamental concentric circumferential grooves, and there is a single groove on the outer flan near the edge and another at the crest or summit of the wall. The original diameter of the bell's mouth is difficult to ascertain because of the flattening, but may have been between 30 and 40mm. In flattened form it is 47mm across and the height from the rim to the crest is 27mm. Half of the flan is missing and broken away.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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