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Description: | Spherical bell made from cast copper alloy. The loop at the top is rectangular externally and oval internally. The upper half of the bell has two circular sound holes and extremely worn decoration of radiating grooves, probably originally petal shapes. The lower half has two circular sound holes joined by a long slot; part of the bell's body by one of the lower sound holes has cracked away. The lower half has extremely worn fish-scale decoration. The four sound holes are spaced evenly around the circumference and the two halves are joined by a raised seam. The pea survives, and is not made of iron but of a small pebble, which works perfectly well to produce a quiet tinkling sound. Length 35 mm, diameter 28 mm, weight 34.69g. It probably dates to the 17th to 19th centuries AD.
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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