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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy cast spherical ?crotal? bell of Post-Medieval, eighteenth century date (c. AD 1700 ? c. AD 1750). Found in together in seven separate pieces. Overall length of the largest part, 40.0mm, diameter 42.5mm. Weight of all seven pieces, 46.06g.
The sub-rectangular suspension loop at the top is about 11.0mm long, 15.0mm wide and 4.2mm thick and has a sub-circular perforation which is about 4.0mm in diameter. When this bell was complete it would have had an upper and lower hemisphere divided equally by a prominent horizontal circumferential rib. However, about half the bell is missing due to an old break. At one side of the suspension loop, about half way down the side of the upper hemisphere, is a circular sound hole which is about 7.0mm in diameter. There would have been a similar sound hole on the opposite side (now missing). The lower hemisphere would have had two sound holes at the base, joined together by a sound ?slit?. Two of the fragments form one edge of the slit and between them have one half of a maker?s mark, a letter C. The other initial was, no doubt, on the other side of the slit (now missing). The upper hemisphere appears to be undecorated but the lower hemisphere is decorated with a repeated ?sunburst? pattern. This is, however, barely visible. An iron ?sound-pea?, sub-spheroid in form, remains intact although it is heavily corroded.
The outer surface of the bell is very worn and has a greenish brown patina with areas of blistered copper alloy corrosion products. The inner surface of the bell is also corroded and has bright green copper alloy corrosion products. One area on the inside has a large iron stain created by the iron sound pea. All the breaks on fragments are old.
The finder, Mr John Mortimer, believes that the complete initials would have been C R and that the bell can be dated between 1694 and 1741. | 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: | 1700
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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