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Description: | A copper alloy spherical bell. It has a loop which is semi-circular in shape and attached to the circular body of the bell, two circular sound holes either side of the base of the loop are present. The lower half of the bell has a petal-like pattern in the centre of which there is a circular space with the initials RW engraved in it either side of another sound hole which is rectangular in shape with circular ends. This bell is likely to date from the 16th century or 17th century due to the presence of the initals RW, which stand for Richard Wells, although it is unclear whether it is Robert Wells senior or junior that is being refered to. The Wells family ran the Aldbourne foundry for several generations. An identical but larger parallel can be found in Payne (1995, p43 No, 30). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1700
1826 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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