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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy spherical or crotal bell of Post-Medieval date. The upper half of the bell is undecorated but has an integral rectangular suspension loop with rectangular perforation, and two circular opposing sound holes. There is a prominent circumferential casting ridge or seam around the centre of the bell that divides the two halves. The lower half of the bell has traces of very worn incised decoration consisting of subursts or petals radiating from the centre of a transverse rectangular sound slot that terminates in circular sound holes. The letters S and C or G can just be made out on one side of the sound hole, any corresponding letters on the opposite side of the sound hole are now missing. There is a small iron pea inside the bell, which still rings. The bell measures 31.40mm in width/diameter, 41.62mm in height, and weighs 35.78g. This bell probably dates to between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries AD, Bailey notes the existence of crotal bell founders with the initials S. C. and S. G., both of which date to this period (Read, 1995: 42-43, in particular no. 27). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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