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Description: | Cast copper-alloy spherical bell (often known as a ?crotal? bell). At the top is a square loop, worn across the top. There is a pronounced seam between the two halves, where the bell is a maximum of 27-28 mm in diameter. The upper half has two sound holes and appears to be undecorated; the lower half has two sound holes joined by a slot, and is decorated with a radiating pattern of grooves which make petal shapes. On one side of the slot, in the centre, is an engraved founder?s hammer, but there appears to be no other maker?s mark. The bell is filled with a very hard material which is probably soil bound together with iron corrosion from the pea. The total length is 35 mm. Although almost certainly post-medieval, these bells are not easy to date closely; it probably belongs to the 17th to 19th 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: | 1600
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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