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Description: | A Medieval or Post-Medieval copper alloy drop-shaped bell. The object is made from a sub-triangular sheet of metal rolled into a conical shape. The open end has four petal-like flaps of metal folded towards one another with their tips probably designed to meet in the centre (they are now bent out of shape and one is partially missing) leaving small gaps inbetween to act as sound holes. At the apex of the cone is a small flattened, oval suspension loop. Similar examples already recorded on the PAS database including SWYOR-0E6543, IOW-B94741 and SUSS-2260F4.Similar bells can be seen illustrated in Read (2001, fig. 37, no.464), who suggests a fourteenth century date and Bailey (1995, p.36, no.1), who suggests a fifteenth or sixteenth century date. An example can also be seen in Allan (1984, fig.191, no.138) discovered during excavations in Exeter 1971-80. Length: 48.93mm, Width at widest end: 16.14mm, Weight: 6.91g
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