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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy crotal bell with the 'sunburst' pattern decorating the upper and lower parts of this spherical-shaped bell. The pattern consists of eight tear-shaped rays, on the upper half, with a central longitudinal line and pellet at the end, within two loops that fan outwards from the centre at the apex of the bell. The lower half of the bell has twelve rays which are arranged closer together and at less of an oblique angle, which stem from the broken edge of the open slit. There is a central raised rib which divides the upper and lower halves of the bell. On the upper half of the bell, there are two circular sound holes on either side of the suspension loop, which is made up of an ovoid, 6 mm in diameter, within a square, 11 mm square. The lower half of the bell is incomplete. There are the remains of two circular holes, which would have been connected by a slit which ran perpendicular to the central rib. The base of the bell is missing which might have had a maker's mark to date it, and the iron clapper that would have been loose within the bell is also missing.Bailey (1992) has a similar decorated example on p.38, no.5, which he dates from the 17th century.Read (1988) illustrates a similar plain example on page 126, no.800, which is dated from the 16th to the 17th century.
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