Record ID: CORN-FA4533
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy horse bell with a rounded head with an integral square suspension loop that is 19 mm wide, 18 mm in height and 5.5 mm thick, with an oval perforation that is 6 mm long and 3.5 mm wide internally. The remains of the bell expand outwards from the head, which is 34 mm in diameter, to an edge of several jagged points, the longest of which is 41 mm in length. The bell is 3 mm thick at this broken edge and 48 mm in diameter. There is no circumferential rib around the top of the bell but there would probably have been a raised border around the base of the …
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2018
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Record ID: NLM-F22938
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy bell. A spherical bell formed by the folding inwards of four triangular leaves of sheet metal of thickness c.0.4mm, with a solid stalk with a flattened and rounded end bearing a drilled hole of diameter 3.3mm. Very slight traces of gilding appear. Now filled with soil. The finder kindly cites NLM-5BC82C as a parallel. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1500. Length: 25.0mm, Diameter: 14.1mm, Weight: (with trapped soil): 4.00gms
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F04067
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post medieval cast copper alloy spherical crotal bell, dating to c AD1600 - 1800. It has a rectangular suspension loop with circular, probably drilled perforation with two circular perforations in the upper half of the bell, one of which has been, or has become, enlarged. There is radiating moulded tear drop shape or sunburst decoration above and below the raised central circumferential ridge. By the slot a maker's mark of the letters M and S appear, on one side, in separate rectangular cells, and the number 4 in a similar cell on the other. It contains its iron pea. Di…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
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Record ID: SUSS-EF67D7
Object type: BELL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a post-medieval copper-alloy bell, c.1700-1850.
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Sunday 16th June 2019
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