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Description: | A fragment from a post-medieval animal bell ('crotal') cast in copper alloy. It comes from the lower half of the bell, an area extending from one side of the sound slot, seen as a broadly straight edge. It is decorated with overlapping moulded semicircles forming a pattern known as 'fish scale'. The semicircles on the fish scale pattern decrease in size as they travel from the median seam end to the slot.The 'fish scale' decoration dates this crotal to the 16th or 17th centuries (Bailey 1995, 40-41; ref. 7), see also ref. HAMP-123118 on this database. It is now a light-grey colour suggestive of a high tin content. The breaks are ragged, the result of old damage.
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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