interesting thingie ?

[lee]

so yesterday night i did a bit of covert detecting and found this thingie behind where george washington was ment to of had a chat with that french bloke ? roughchan somthing or other ?.....anyway its brass or bronze and has the number 5 on the bottom and it looks like half of it got blown off at some point......any idears folks ?

 

[del]

hey Lee , its part of a crotal or sleigh bell . i believe they call them rumblers in your native tongue .

Dan

 

[lee]

oh yer.....just done a search and your right....rumblers...us english av got some funny words..lmao.
so it looks like 18th century....would i be right ? and what does the 5 mean ?......size ?

 

[del]

its definately pre 1860 Lee and the 5 is the size number , heres some info on the petal bells type
http://www.classicbells.com/info/Petal.htm

 

[lee]

cheers del , that was a good read and thank you for identifying my thingie......