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Description: | A fragment of a large cast copper alloy spherical (estimated 52mm diameter) rumbler or crotal bell. The fragment follows the line of the sound bow on the lower hemisphere and incorporates a smaller section of the upper hemisphere above the equatorial rib that divides the two halves of the bell. The lower half of the fragment has cast decoration consisting of a gadroon or sunburst design with a semicircular field to one side of the slot containing two five-pointed starts separated from each other by two pairs of curved lines. Circa 1500-1800 AD.
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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