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BELL
Unique ID: SUR-244415
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast and open copper alloy bell, missing its clapper. The bell is oval in shape, 41.6mm long and 36.7mm wide and has simple incised decoration comprising of a simplified six petalled foliate shape to each long side. There is an integral cast suspension loop, with an off-centre piercing and a flat profile. Possibly from a 19th century bell brass associated with heavy horses.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MODERN
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: MODERN
Date from: Circa AD 1800
Date to: Circa AD 1920
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.6 mm
Height: 32.3 mm
Width: 36.7 mm
Weight: 23.7 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Whitchurch-on-Thames (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6578
Four figure Latitude: 51.49721278
Four figure longitude: -1.06503976
1:25K map: SU6578
1:10K map: SU67NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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