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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy crotal bell of probable Post-Medieval date. It has an integrally cast rectangular suspension loop at the top, with a central circular aperture. The upper half of the bell has opposing circular sound holes and the remains of incised leaf-shaped motifs numbering eight in total radiating from the suspension loop. At the centre of the bell is a slight circumferential casting ridge. The lower half has two opposing sound holes connected by a long rectangular sound slot. It has the remains of decoration comprising projecting petal shaped motifs radiating from the sound slot to the circumferential ridge. On one side of the sound slot at the centre of the bell is an additional moulded motif seemingly a horseshoe.The bell shows some signs of post-depositional wear and corrosion but retains its iron pea and still rings. It measures 33.56mm in height, 25.55mm in diameter, and weighs 23.29g.This is a cast copper-alloy crotal bell, probably dating to the Post-Medieval period, c.16th-17th centuries AD (c.f. Bailey, 1995: pp. 39-40 nos. 4-5). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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