17th century crotal bell

[hampshirehunter]

I found this exellent example of a crotal bell in my local fields while detecting with whitehunter.
was a bit of a shame that a small peace was missing along with the actual ball which would have been inside,

This 17th century bell was found using my garret ace 250 which is an exellnt machine well worth the money !

 

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[WhiteHunter]

I also found a bit of a crotal bell in the same field one day before his​

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[fortbball9]

Welcome to T-Net hampshirehunter,
Congrats on a nice relic

fortbball9

 

[hampshirehunter]

Thanks ,

 

[West Jersey Detecting]

The only one I found was many years ago in my own yard (my house was built on old farmland in 1965). That old crotal bell is what got me hooked on the hobby!

 

[trove]

Nice find.Happy Hunting tonight.Hope you don't fall in any ruts lol!!

 

[CRUSADER]

Welcome fellow UKer, always nice to get a whole one. May the next one 'ring' for you

 

[Steve_UK]

Welcome Hampshire Hunter, and welcome to Trove too!

 

[trove]

Welcome Hampshire Hunter, and welcome to Trove too!

Hi there Steve_uk ,thankyou for your welcome.

 

[hampshirehunter]

Thanks to everone for the warm welcom to this website

Lots for stuff to put on here and will keep updating my recent finds

thanks

 

[CRUSADER]

Thanks to everone for the warm welcom to this website

Lots for stuff to put on here and will keep updating my recent finds

thanks

Try & post in the 'Todays Finds' section after a good day's hunting

 

[terpfan]

Congratulations on the crotal bell and welcome to tnet! I too found my first crotal bell recently, and mine looks identical in design to yours (though mine is only 2/3 complete). If you don't mind my asking, how did you date the bell as from being from the 17th century? I would have thought mine was from the mid-late 1800s. I've been having trouble finding good sources of information on the internet.

 

[allen]

great looking bell !!!!

 

[Admiral de Salee]

Welcome to T-net and to the crotal bell gang! The ones we find in the U.S. are usually 1800's, but the European bells they're copied from I'm guessing might go back as much as several hundred more years.

And I'm hunting in one of many Milfords over here (must be one in every state). All it took to name 'em was a mill and a ford or a wish to steal a name from the Old Country. Connecticut's is large, this Michigan one is nice and small with some old (for this territory) homesites.

Best of luck, you've lit upon a great hobby!

 

[Dirty WhiteBoy]

Very neat to see...Thank you!

 

[Marc(NB)]

nice find! They are one of my fav finds.Follow the link for more info on how to date bells
http://classicbells.com/info/DatingBells.htm

 

[terpfan]

nice find! They are one of my fav finds.Follow the link for more info on how to date bells
http://classicbells.com/info/DatingBells.htm

Great source, thanks!

 

[ringfinder]

Neat find and welcome to TreasureNet! Does your bell have a number
on the bottom? Most sleigh bells have numbers stamped on them from 1 to 12 or 13. The number 1's being the smallest. Some of the sleigh bells with no numbers on them were privately made, probably at a blacksmith shop.

HH, Ringfinder

 

[CRUSADER]

Neat find and welcome to TreasureNet! Does your bell have a number
on the bottom? Most sleigh bells have numbers stamped on them from 1 to 12 or 13. The number 1's being the smallest. Some of the sleigh bells with no numbers on them were privately made, probably at a blacksmith shop.

HH, Ringfinder

I have tons & none of them have numbers. Most of the ones over here are not sliegh bells they are goat & sheep or horse & cattle.