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Description: | A small conical clapper bell, its basal diameter about 22mm (now deformed through slight crushing) and the bell itself of height 18mm with an integral cast-in suspension lug, giving an overall height of 24mm. The lug is approximately 8.5mm across with a central piercing of c.3mm. The walls of the bell are in openwork, having triangular shapes cut out of it, with the point of the triangle alternately up or down, creating a zone 8mm in height of zig-zag bars. Below this zone, the continuous lower rim of the bell is some 5mm broad. Within the bell, under its crown, are two small holes presumed for wire to support the clapper, which is missing. For comparisons, see SF-0A9956 or SF-2071B7 . This appears to be a regional type of object on current showing, and is attributed to a pre-conquest date. The openwork form has parallels in previous Suffolk finds. Such bells might have also been used in the early post-Conquest period, for instance on a rosary, or possibly on a domestic pet. A small conical bell was found in the Sutton Hoo Mound One ship-Burial. | 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: | 900
1200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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