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Description: | A sheet copper alloy, teardrop-shaped bell. The bell is formed of thin sheet copper alloy, split at the wide end to form four roughly oval holes, with a seam up the side of the bell. The body of the bell is decorated with four circumferential grooves at regular intervals and there are traces of gilding remaining. It has an integral oval suspension loop at the narrow end, but this is broken. The striker remains in place in the bell and is not iron as is normal. The bell is 32.4mm long and 9.5mm in diameter. It weighs 4.4gm. A very similar example is IOW-B94741 which quotes Read 2001 58, fig.37, ref. 464 as a parallel, dating from the 14th century. Bailey, Detector Finds, p. 36, No.5 is also very similar and is dated to the 15th or 16th century and suggested to be Spanish. SUSS-2260F4 is another example on the database.
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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