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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy medieval spherical bell with most of its lower half now missing due to old breaks. This bell is made of four components, a suspension loop, cut from sheeting, the loop of which is now missing, a hollow body made of two halves by hammering a piece of sheet in a form and finally a round pea, also now missing.
The loop is missing its terminal but its base remains, this was inserted upwards through a hole cut in the upper half of the body and the ends were bent outwards and then inwards, so that the loop remained rigid rather than swivelling. The two halves of the body were soldered together and there is a flanged seam line. It measures 38mm in width and c32mm in surviving height.
This bell is very like a more complete example from London which is dated from the late 13th to the early 15th centuries (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 338-339, fig 221, fig 1666). | 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: | 1250
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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