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Description: | A worn and heavily encrusted copper-alloy crotal bell of probable Medieval date. The interior is completely encrusted with a red/brown encrustation that is slightly magnetic, perhaps a corrosion product from the iron pea within the bell. It has an integrally cast rectangular suspension loop at the top, with a central oval shaped aperture. The upper half of the bell has opposing circular sound holes and the remains of moulded ray or petal motifs radiating from the suspension loop. At the centre of the bell is a prominent 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 rays or petal shaped motifs radiating from the sound slot to the circumferential ridge. It measures 56.06mm in height, 42.95mm in diameter, and weighs 140.43g. This is a cast copper-alloy crotal bell, probably dating to the Post-Medieval period, c.1500-1700 AD | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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