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Description: | A fragment of copper-alloy animal (crotal) bell of Post-Medieval date (AD1600-1800). It is no longer possible to determine the diameter or total height of this bell due to its fragmentary condition. The diameter (horizontal) would have been in excess of 27.35mm. The suspension loop is externally sub-trapezoidal in shape having a width of 13.30mm where it joins the bell, narrowing to 9.45mm. The suspension loop has a thickness of 4.35mm and height of 7.30mm. This bell has a maximum incomplete height of 28.18mm including the suspension loop. The upper hemisphere of the bell is decorated with the sunburst design commonly found on crotal bells. The presence of an incomplete sound hole indicates that the sound hole had a diameter of 3.27mm. On the opposite side of the upper hemisphere an indentation in the irregularly broken edge probably identifies the location of a second sound hole. Crotal bells commonly have two sound holes on the upper hemisphere. A plain rib is present around the circumference of the bell, at the maximum girth, this band has a width of 3.13mm. Not enough of the lower half of the bell survives to determine whether the lower hemisphere was also decorated with the sunburst design. Only a maximum 5.72mm of height survives below the rib. The wall of the bell has a thickness of 1.52mm increasing to 2.36mm over the median rib. This fragment weighs 10.9g.
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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