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Description: | Complete undecorated cast copper alloy spherical "crotal" bell of probable seventeenth or eighteenth date (AD 1600 - AD 1800). Length 47mm, maximum diameter 38mm. Weight 57.18g.The sub-square suspension loop, at the top, is about 12mm long, about 12mm wide and 3mm thick. It has a small sub-circular perforation. The upper and lower hemisphere is divided by a prominent horizontal circumferential rib. At either side of the suspension loop, about half way down the side of the upper hemisphere, is a circular sound hole which is 6mm in diameter. Two slightly larger sound holes in the lower hemisphere are integral with a sound "slit". The corroded iron "sound-pea" is intact within the bell. It is sub-round in form and about 15mm in diameter. The outer surface of the bell is mainly corroded. However, small areas of a black shiny coating are present. The bell appears to be undecorated and without a maker's mark.
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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