These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
A small bronze bell, quadrangular in shape. The associated material found within the bell contains very fragmentary remains of part of the clapper and its means of attachment. Bells such as this may have served the same function as cowbells today or they may have served on horse harness or part of tintinnabula to ward off evil spirits.The Caerleon bell has a small rectangular hole at the top of the bell, underneath the suspension loop; it perhaps represents a means of replacing the clapper after the original means was damaged; a piece of wire passed through a loop at the top of the clapper and emerging through a hole at the top of the bell would provide an adequate alternative fastening.
Site Name: Roman Gates Site, Caerleon
Notes: found during the excavation of barrack-blocks etc. on the 'Roman Gates' site, carried out by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust.
