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Description: | An Early-Medieval copper-alloy bell.The damaged bell chamber would originally have been of hexagonal section, tapering towards the top, where there is a damaged loop. The sides surrounding the basal opening are heavily damaged; however, what remains suggests that they were of typical form for this type of bell: slightly concave, with a lobe extending from each of the six corners. The clapper is absent, although there is a possible pair of wire holes within the unidentified, hard, black substance located on the underside of the point. The outer surface of the bell retains much of its unidentified black coating. The object measures 24.6mm high, 19.6mm wide and weighs 4.3g.This bell was found in association with a similar bell, BH-948D53, and the two are clearly related in terms of date of manufacture and circumstances of deposition. They are thought to date from around the 10th century (see BH-948D53 for further discussion).
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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