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Description: | A complete but corroded large cast copper-alloy spherical (crotal) bell. This bell mneasures 58mm in total height and 51.1mm in diameter. It has an integral cast suspension lobe with a circular perforation through its centre. Pushed through this there is a rectangular strip of folded copper-alloy. The upper half of the bell has two opposing circular sound holes, one is twice the size of the other. There is a central circumferencial ridge around the body of the bell and the lower half has a transverse rectangular sound hole with circular terminals. Inside the bell a spherical ball of copper-alloy attached to a short length of copper-alloy chain can be seen. Spherical bells of this type are post medieval and late 15th-17th century in date. | 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: | 1500
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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