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Description: | Medieval white metal or white metal coated copper alloy bell: comprising a very crudely cast hollow hemisphere with a suspension loop at the apex and a series of eight arches in the lower edge. There are corroded remains of the inserted iron crown staple, for suspension of the missing clapper, in the centre of the interior surface. The face of the bell is decorated with four evenly spaced counter-relief roundels, each of which contains a shield bearing an eagle displayed impaling bendy of six. Height 26mm. Diameter 30mm. Weighs 30.18g. Although impaled arms on an identical example from Suffolk have been identified as those of Ralph de Monthermer and his wife Joan of Acre (Martin, Pendleton and Plouviez 2008, 509), it is more likely that they represent the arms of Nuremberg, a possible place of manafacture for this type of bell. Broadly similar stamped examples of the arms of Nuremberg can be found on late medieval and post-medieval nested cup weights (Houben, 1984, pp. 11 and 70, gifs./ 11 - 13). 14th - 15th century.
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