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Unique ID: SUSS-02A321
Object type certainty: Certain
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A nearly complete Post Medieval cast copper-alloy animal rumbler or 'crotal' bell. No maker's mark visible. The bell consists of an integrally cast suspension loop with circular hole running perpendicular to the sound slit below. The upper hemisphere of the bell has two circular sound holes and seems to be plain or perhaps decorated in a 'sunburst' pattern, now illegible; the lower hemisphere is decorated in a fishscale pattern, with an elongated sound slit and attached large circular sound holes (one broken slightly). The pea is missing. It measures 39.76 mm high, 30.59 mm diameter and weighs 34.7 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).
Class: animal rumbler, crotal
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Height: 39.76 mm
Weight: 34.7 g
Diameter: 30.39 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st September 2014
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TQ4511
Four figure Latitude: 50.88030765
Four figure longitude: 0.05978325
1:25K map: TQ4511
1:10K map: TQ41SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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