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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy spherical "crotal" bell of seventeenth or eighteenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1800). Length 36.2mm, maximum diameter 27.7mm. Weight 22.71g.The sub-rectangular suspension loop at the top is about 14.0mm long, 13.5mm wide and 4.2mm thick and has a sub-rectangular perforation. The upper and lower hemispheres are 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. One of the holes has a diameter of about 6.4mm and the diameter of the other is about 6.2mm. Two sound holes in the lower hemisphere are integral with a sound "slit". Part of one side of the slit is missing due to an old break. The upper and lower hemispheres are both undecorated. A copper alloy "sound-pea", sub-spheroid in form, remains intact within the bell although it is heavily corroded. The outer surface of the bell is worn and corroded and has a patchy mid-green patina.
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