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Description: | A cast copper-alloy crotal (rumbler) bell of Post-Medieval date. The bell is approximately three quarters complete. The integral suspension loop is almost completely missing. However enough survives to show that the loop had a sub-square cross-section, which was 4.40x4.70mm, and was externally 12.56mm wide with an internal gap 3.07mm wide. A plain ridge c. 4.74mm wide spans the mid point of the bell. The top half of the bell has moulded 'sunburst' decoration and two sound holes with diameters of 3.06mm. One of these sound holes seems never to have been perforated although the intension to form a sound hole is evident due to a definite depression, which does not pierce through. A fragment of the upper half, just above the mid point is missing. About half of the lower half of the bell is also missing. The lower half has two sound holes, now only partially surviving, which had an estimated diameter of 6.10mm. These were probably joined by a slit however too much of the lower half is missing to confirm this. The lower half has 'fish-scale' decoration. The bell weighs 25.07g and has an approximate diameter of 30.30mm. An example can be seen in Cuddleford, M. 1994 (p.5, fig.5).
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