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Description: | Copper alloy bell. The bell is hexagonal in plan with a scalloped or fluted lower edge. The apex is missing its integral suspension loop. Each face of the bell is decorated with three punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged in a pyramid fashion. Traces of iron corrosion are present inside the bell, presumably from the iron clapper. A virtually identical example was found near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, and is recorded on the PAS database as LIN-4DB330 . An undecorated parallel ws found in a context dating to circa 975AD at 16-22 Coppergate, York (Mainman, 2000, p2599, fig.1294, small find number 10528. Other examples are also discussed on the same page. | 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
999 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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