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<div dir="ltr">What arrogance!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Sent from Richard Offen’s iPhone. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, February 24, 2025 7:11:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bell Historians <bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Neal Dodge <gtbartonbells@gmail.com>; Graham <gnabb50@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bell Historians] Holywood Church, Dumfriesshire</font>
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<div dir="ltr">The Times article free of paywall can be viewed here <a href="https://archive.ph/ILole" originalsrc="https://archive.ph/ILole">https://archive.ph/ILole</a>
<div>And the planning case & documents <a href="https://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=125736" originalsrc="https://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=125736">https://www.dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=125736</a></div>
<div>Attached is a picture of one of the bells which is claimed to have been cast between 1160 and 1176</div>
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<div>The full study on the two bells authored by the owner of the church can be found here. </div>
<div><a href="https://www.hiddenheritage.info/_files/ugd/66c3ba_bd355640646445088dd6c72ea132c141.pdf" originalsrc="https://www.hiddenheritage.info/_files/ugd/66c3ba_bd355640646445088dd6c72ea132c141.pdf">https://www.hiddenheritage.info/_files/ugd/66c3ba_bd355640646445088dd6c72ea132c141.pdf</a></div>
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<div>Including these telling extracts...</div>
<div>"Some bell conservationists had regrettably displayed partisan attitudes, which compromised their reliability. For these reasons the authors were conscious not to make assumptions, based on bell form and context in which the bells had existed, but concentrate
on the evidence the bells did present, ie., what was written or exhibited on the bronze itself."</div>
<div>"It felt further pursuance of bell experts, and perhaps an unqualified opinion was best avoided, particularly as it was the legend on the bells, and the legend of the sponsor, not the form of the bells, that shaped the study’s conclusions" </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 at 16:56, Graham via Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>oooh! you are a tease Chris...🙂</div>
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<div>Graham</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 at 16:54, c.j.pickford.t21--- via Bell-historians <<a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" target="_blank">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">There's quite a story here, running back several years before this latest twist.
<div>The supposed value of of the bells is based on a historical study by the owners - and conclusions that several experienced bell historians have felt unable to endorse. </div>
<div>I shall say no more, but this is just to warn that the latest news is only part of a longer story. </div>
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Subject: [Bell Historians] Holywood Church, Dumfriesshire<br>
From: alan bagworth via Bell-historians <u></u><br>
To: <a href="mailto:bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk" target="_blank">bell-historians@lists.ringingworld.co.uk</a><br>
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Thought this might be of interest.<br>
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The Times on-line on Saturday 22 February in the Scotland section has a <br>
report on two 'old' bells. The church was bought from the Church of <br>
Scotland by a couple who have lowered the bells and put them into secure <br>
storage as they feared they might be stolen. The local authority is now <br>
ordering the couple to return the bells to the church. There are <br>
pictures of the two bells which are believed to be linked to a <br>
12th-century knight 'William le Riche'. Is there any recorded <br>
information on these bells and can their date be predicted from their <br>
profile?. The report suggests they may have an eight figure valuation.<br>
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Alan<br>
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<div>Many Thanks <br>
Neal Dodge<br>
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