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Early-Medieval bell (incomplete)
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St. Albans District Council, Julian Watters, 2011-12-02 11:47:52
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Early-Medieval bell (incomplete)
Description
English: An Early-Medieval copper-alloy bell. The bell chamber is of hexagonal section with straight sides tapering steeply towards the top, where it is surmounted by a damaged rounded loop. The six sides that surround the open bottom end are concave, giving the bell a fluted appearance, and have incurved bases. creating a knop or foot on each of the six corners. The bell's clapper is missing but two small holes, set within an unidentified substance beneath the point on the inside, mark its original position. The outer surfaces of the bell are corroded in places and possibly bear traces of a black coating. The object measures 29.9mm high, 24.6mm wide at the base and weighs 11.7g.

This bell was found in association with a similar, smaller bell, BH-948BC7. Another parallel was found at Meols, Cheshire (Griffiths et al 2007: 69/pl. 75, no. 390). They are increasingly thought to be characteristic of the Danelaw in the 10th century (ibid. 69-70 for further discussion; also see Schoenfelder and Richards 2011, who discuss Norse bells in detail).
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 900 and 1000
Accession number
FindID: 470968
Old ref: BH-948053
Filename: Earlymed_bell_11_168_3.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/358781
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/358781/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/470968
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