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Description: | A complete sheet spherical copper-alloy bell. Measuring 22.9mm in height and c21mm in width.
This sheet spherical bell has a suspension loop cut from sheeting and a hollow body created from two sheet hemispheres soldered together. It would also have had a iron pea inside it, the inside of the bell is now full of soil. Cut into the underside of the lower hemisphere there is a recatngular sound slot with rounded terminal holes. The copper-alloy of this bell is shiny and silvery in colour in areas, this is likely to be due to a high tin content or possibly a white metal coating.
Similar sheet spherical bells have been discovered in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 338-339, fig 221, no 1645), and this type of bell was apparently used for dress as well as animals from the early medieval period onwards, between the 13th and 15th centuries. | 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: | 1200
1500 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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