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Description: | Medieval copper alloy sheet sub-spherical bell. The bell is formed of two hemispheres joined at the centre with a raised rib. It is circular in plan but an oval in profile with a flattened lower hemisphere. In the centre of the upper half is a loop, now squashed, formed of a strip of copper alloy bent around into a circle until the ends join and are then soldered to the top of the bell. There is no evidence on the inner side that they go through the bell and are bent outwards. Across the lower side is a sound slot with oval expansions at each end. To one side of the slot is stamped a cross pattee. By the loop and raised rib are remains of a white metal coating. There is a corroded but probably copper alloy pea within the bell. It is 20.6mm tall, 17.5mm excluding the loop, 19.7mm in diameter. It is 0.2mm thick by the sound slot and the loop is 0.4mm thick. it weighs 3.53 grams.Very similar bells have been found in excavations in London, in layers dating from the late 13th to early 15th centuries AD (G. Egan and F. Pritchard; 1991; pp. 338-9). In those cases the loop is made by a strip being pushed through the upper hemisphere. An example from about 12 miles away, in Wiltshire, with a similar soldered loop and cross pattee stamp has been record on this database, SOM-29A042.
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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