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Description: | A near complete cast copper alloy spherical (crotal) bell. The bell has a rectangular shaped suspension loop, one arm of which is now missing due to an old break. The upper half has no decoration but has two opposing circular sound holes. There is a circumferencial ridge around the centre of the bell. The lower half of the bell has the remains of incised decoration, perhaps petals, radiating from the centre of a transverse rectangular sound slot that terminates in circular sound holes. There is a semi-circle to one side of the sound hole with what appears to be either half of a divided cross or a letter T, probably a maker's mark, and there may be a corresponding semi-circle and letter on the opposite side of the sound hole, however this is no-longer visible. There is an iron pea within the bell, which still rings. The bell measures 35.11mm in width and 45.26mm in height (including suspension loop) and weighs 41.10g. This bell is likely to date to the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries AD. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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