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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy norse clapper bell, roughly half of this bell survives the other half is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The suspension loop is lozenge shaped with a circular hole through its centre and the surviving side of the bell has been squashed flat. It measures 30mm in length and 25mm in surviving width at its rim. The body of the bell is decorated with three open work triangles, one lower larger one and two smaller ones with their tips pointing down towards the larger one, which has its tip pointing upwards.
This norse bell dates to the late early-medieval period, c900-1066. Similar bells have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk, from Covehithe (see SF-0A9956), Monks Eleigh (see SF-2071B7) and Barham (see SF-4A8FA1) another example is also known from Chippenham, Cambridgeshire (see SF-2C7AE4). | 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: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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