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Description: | A nearly complete Post Medieval cast copper-alloy animal rumbler or 'crotal' bell. 'HW' makers mark, of Williams Seller's unnamed foreman in York, dating this bell to c. 1683-1687. The bell consists of an integrally cast suspension loop with circular hole running parallel to the sound slit below. The upper hemisphere of the bell has two circular sound holes and is decorated in a 'sunburst' pattern'; the lower hemisphere is decorated in a fishscale pattern, with an elongated sound slit and attached large circular sound holes (one broken slightly). At the centre of the sound slit, a large raised circle bears a symmetrical makers' mark of initials 'H W' flanking two fronds of a fern-like plant. This seems to be in keeping with the maker and information listed above. Remains of the iron pea are still intact inside, with more material in the finds bag. It measures 31.34 mm high, 25.49 mm diameter, 22.42 grams.The fishscale patterns seems to have appeared on animal bells during the early part of the Post Medieval period, but is rarely found on examples made after the 17th century (cf. Blunt, R., 'Crotal Bells', Fig 14.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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