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Description: | Cast copper alloy crotal bell with the ?sunburst? pattern decorating the upper and lower parts of this spherical-shaped bell. Within each sunburst is an moulded line, like a ray. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes on either side of the suspension loop, which is made up of a circular opening within a square. On the lower half of the bell, there are two circular holes, connected by a slit which runs perpendicular to the central rib, along the circumference of the bell until it almost meets the rib on both sides. There are two moulded lines, one either side of the slit, which help to define it and divide it from the decoration.
The base of the bell is too corroded and damaged along the slit to make out any mark, but it looks as if there was not one there. Much of the upper surface of the bell is covered in iron corrosion product which has either come from the corroded iron clapper, now stuck within the bell, or from an iron object that the bell was buried with.
c. AD 1475-1625
Bailey (1992) has a similar example on p.38, no.10, which he dates from the late 15th to early 17th 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: | 1475
1625 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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