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Description: | An incomplete post-medieval spherical animal bell cast in copper alloy. The upper half is plain. It has two sound holes c. 7mm in diameter; in one a casting flash has not been filed down completely. Of similar proportions are the two sound holes on the lower hemisphere, abutting the central casting seam. They are joined together by a slot and are perpendicular to those on the upper half. Either side of the slot the lower half is decorated with a 'sunburst' pattern formed of five 'rays' of similar width. The rays are formed of double borders within which a longitudinal incision. Within one half of the 'sunburst' is a semicircle which bears a T-shaped 'founder's hammer' motif. Such a mark within a semicircle suggests a late 16th- or early 17th-century date for this artefact (cf. Bailey 1995, 40-41). The iron pea survives within the crotal. Only the vestiges of the suspension loop now survive. The bell has a brown patina with patches of lighter corrosion product.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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