Brass clapper bell.

Collection type: Object
Description: Brass clapper bell.
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Oxfordshire Britwell Priory Britwell Salome Britwell Baldwin
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Charles J.B. Stopes; PRM source Charles J.B. Stopes
Date
Date collected: By 1952
Acquisition information: Donated: 1952
Materials and processes: Material Brass Metal, Process Cast
Dimensions: Diameter: max 90 mm, Height: max 100 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1952.4.7
Research and responses: OED online: Latten: A mixed metal of yellow colour, either identical with, or closely resembling, brass; often hammered into thin sheets. [AP 20/12/2007]
The Stopes family used to occupy an eighteenth century house north of the Watlington Road in Britwell Salome, see http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63815&strquery=britwell%20salome [AP 22/04/2008]

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