The sound of bells in 1170

[oakcroft13]

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> and if so, what other information to we have on the casting / existence of very large bells in Britain or in Europe at that date?

The largest oldest surviving European bell of which I have details is the Freiburg bell, cast 1258, weight 3.29t.

Percival Price's 'Bells and Man' gives a list of others in Appendix A, including Hersfeld, cast 1036~1039, 1.3t; Fulda, c.1200, 1.75t; Aachen, 1251, 4t, and several others.

Bill H