Numero oggetto
51/778
Descrizione
This is a wedge-shaped metal clucket bell with a loop (staple) at the top to which leather straps, now missing, would be attached. Bells were used by shepherds to help them locate their sheep.
Descrizione fisica
1 sheep bell [clucket]: metal; good condition
Storico archivio
Lavinia Smith Catalogue (D60/28) - 'A list of the contents of the East Hendred museum. July 5 1940 // Shepherd's Andrews's "ship tackle" // 4-12. Nine clucket bells with their harness' (Smith's description could be in reference to any of the clucket bell's in the collection - even those which no longer have leather straps)
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