Conservation of the oldest bell founded in Portugal, made of copper alloy, exhumed from the inside of a crypt-ossuary in an archaeological excavation carried out near the Church of S. Pedro in Coruche (Ribatejo).
A group of five researchers from three research centres - Institute of Ethnomusicology, Centre for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-MD), Materials Research Centre (CENIMAT/i3N), NOVA University of Lisbon and Centre for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (C2TN/IST), University of Lisbon - managed to reproduce the original sound of this medieval bell.
- Debut, V., Carvalho, M., Figueiredo, E., Antunes, J., Silva, R. (2016), The sound of bronze: virtual resurrection of a broken medieval bell, in Journal of Cultural Heritage, Vol. 19, May-June, pp. 544-554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2015.09.007
- Sebastian, Luis (2008), Subsídios para a História da Fundição Sineira em Portugal: do sino medieval da Igreja de São Pedro de Coruche à actualidade, (History of bell foundry in Portugal: from the medieval bell of St. Pedro's Church in Coruche till the present), Council Museum of Coruche (ed.), Coruche.
Acknowledgements Municipality of Coruche ~ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ~ National Museum of Archaeology (Lisboa) ~ Bell Foundry Carlos & Luis Jerónimo
