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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy crotal bell. The bell is spherical and has been cast as one piece from one plate of copper alloy, which is multi-faceted. It has two large sound holes on the upper half placed perpendicular to the sound slot on the lower half. The bell has a square pierced lug extending from the top of the bell proper. The iron pin inside is heavily corroded and now fixed in position against the inside; it is not possible to distinguish the pea that it would have held. The top half is undecorated, but the lower half has an incised design of series of horseshoe-like motifs forming an outer circle, around an inner circle with the letters WG on one side of the slot and T on the other. The bell is corroded, particularly around the rim and slot, and the colour is a reddish brown with patches of green and yellow corrosion. Crotal bells date to the 17th - 18th century. | 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: | 1600
1800 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Liz Walker | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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