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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy clapper bell, missing its separately cast clapper due to old breaks. The bell is hemispherical in form with a central circular aperture at the top of the hemisphere where the clapper would originally have passed through. On the domed front face of the object is incised decoration comprising a border at the rim formed from a single groove, with a second grooved band around the aperture. It has a dark green patina and measures 12.09mm in height, 23.04mm in diameter, 1.30mm in thickness and 3.21g in weight.This is probably a copper-alloy clapper bell. Similar bells with grooved decoration are noted from Roman contexts in Colchester (Crummy, 1983: no. 1811) and might suggest an early date for the object. However, clapper bells of similar form are also apparent in the Medieval period (e.g. Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 1644) and a later date cannot be ruled out entirely.
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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