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Description: | A complete sheet copper alloy bell of Medieval date. The bell is spherical in shape and composed of two hemispherical halves soldered together creating a very slight circumferential ridge. The upper half of the bell has two small oval or sub-circular shaped sound holes. At the top of the bell is a small integral suspension loop that is flat, rectangular in section, circular in profile, and with a sub-circular perforation. The flat front and back faces of the suspension loop have four parallel incised transverse grooves. It is uncertain whether the iron pea still survives due to an accumulation of soil inside the bell. The upper half of the bell and the circumferential ridge both have traces of an added white metal coating. The bell measures 18.81mm in diameter, 24.20mm in height (including suspension loop), and weighs 4.38g. This relatively small bell may well have been utilised on clothing or perhaps even as a hawking bell (see for example ESS-B7F6A2). Similar examples are noted in Read (especially Read, 1995: nos. 535-536) and dated to the 13th-14th centuries AD, although he does note the continuation of such bells into the 15th century (read, 1995: pp. 88-89). See also Egan and Pritchard (1991: pp. 338-339) who note the presence of similar bells in London between the 13th and 15th centuries AD. This example is of probable 13th-15th century AD date.
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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