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Description: | Cast copper alloy incomplete crotal bell with the 'sunburst' pattern decorating the upper and lower parts of this spherical-shaped bell. Within each sunburst is an incised line, like a ray. The maker's mark of a founder's hammer is within an oblong shield on the base of the bell. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. One of the two lower halves of the bell is missing. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes (4 mm in diameter) on either side of the suspension loop, which is made up of a circle (3 mm in diameter) within a square (10 mm in width by 9 mm in height). On the lower half of the bell, there are two circular holes (7 mm in diameter), connected by a slit which runs perpendicular to the central rib, along the circumference of the bell until it meets the rib on both sides. The metal ball clapper that would have been attached to the inside of the bell is missing. The length or height of the bell is 39 mm, its diameter is 30 mm, its thickness 2 mm and it weighs 29.64g. Bailey (1992) has a similar example on p.40, no.12, with similar decoration and a founder's hammer on the base of the bell which he dates to c.1550-1650. c.1550-1650
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