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Description: | bAn incomplete Post-Medieval cast copper-alloy spherical bell. There is a raised circumferential ridge around the centre where the two hemispheres meet. Attached to the centre of the upper hemisphere is an irregular sub-rectangular suspension loop, with a small circular hole through it. The upper hemisphere has an irregular hole at one side, perhaps a sound hole that has become enlarged through later damage. This culminates in two cracks which run into the lower hemisphere. The lower hemisphere has a long thin slot or sound aperture in its centre, with a small circular hole at either end. A small piece of the bell has broken away to one side of the centre of this. The lower hemisphere is decorated with a pattern imitating fish scales and the upper with raised curved lines radiating out from the suspension loop. The metal is greenish-brown in colour with a shiny patina. Such bells, often called 'crotal bells' would have been attached to the collars of livestock and are hard to date; many are probably of 17th- to 18th-century date.Length: 37.35mm. Diameter: 30.62mm. Weight: 32.27g.
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