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Description: | Viking period cast copper alloy hexagonal sheet clapper bell, 10th century. Trapezoidal pierced handle with raised collar at the junction with the hexagonal conical sheet clapper bell, which is decorated with two punched ring and dot motifs on each of the six faces, and has a rounded knop on each of the angles at the rim. Within the top of the bell there are traces of an iron loop (for suspending the clapper), which appears to have been soldered in with lead alloy. Length 27.46mm, width 23.82mm, thickness 17.83mm, thickness of sheet bell 0.9-1.1mm, weight 7.38g. A similar hexagonal bell is published in Wikinger Warager Normannen; Die Skandinavier und Europa 800-1200, 1992, SMPK p312-313 no.327c, from a 10th century burial in Kornsa, Norway. This publication cites other similar bells from ?Grabern Islands, York, and Freswick, Scotland (Batey 1988 ?A Viking bell from Freswick Links, Caithness? Med Arch 32), and says they are a supposed Anglo-Scandinavian type. See also Mainman & Rogers, 2000, "Craft, Industry and Everyday Life; Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York", CBA York. | 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
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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