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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy animal rumbler or 'crotal' bell dating to the late Post Medieval or early Modern periods. The bell is sub-spherical and comprises two hemispherical domes with a raised circumferential join. The top hemisphere has two circular sound holes, one either side of a sub-rectangular suspension loop with drilled circular hole, projecting from the top. The lower hemisphere has a long sound slit with circular holes at each end. The edges of the sound slit are worn and now jagged. The lower hemisphere is decorated with the 'sunburst' pattern whilst the upper hemisphere is undecorated. To either side of the sound slit is a faint makers mark, W and G respectively flanked by two annulets. The iron pea is present and still free-moving within the bell cavity. The bell measures 35.7mm in diameter at the circumferential join, 34.0mm in height excluding the attachment loop, 41.8mm including and weighs 38.98g..The maker's mark WG is probably representing the manufacturer William Gwynn, active at Aldbourne between 1770 and 1813 AD. Contemporary illustrations often show bells worn as sets on the harnesses of larger animals. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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