[Bell Historians] FW: Can you help me to identify a bell [5 Attachments]

[Michael Platt]

It's a very long shot, but they remind me of the bell shown in Plate X of George Elphick's The Craft of the Bellfounder.  This plate is said to be a reproduction of a photograph marked Lerwick on the back and once held by Dr F C Eeles.  The location/existence of the bell in the photograph is presumably not known, but George Elphick identified it as being an early 11th Century bell!

Michael Platt


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  Anyone??
   

   



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  Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:08:21 +0100
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  Subject: Can you help me to identify a bell


  Hello I am a metal detectorist and while out searching a field in somerset this weekend I uncovered two bells. I was hopeing you might be able to tell me something about them.

  I have included some pictures taken with a two pence coin to help with the scale. The bells apear to be of a silverish colour base metal with either a green paint or green tarnish (they are heavy). There is also evidence of gold guildining on the top of one bell around the loop. A small piece of a leather strap was also found inside one bell along with what I think is the very rusty strikers.

  Hope you can help or else forward on to someone else who can.

  Thanks for your time 
  Grant Williams




             
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