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It is one of over 60 examples of similar Late Bronze Age and Iron Age cauldrons found in Great Britain and Ireland. The cauldron stands 40.5 centimetres (15.9 in) high, has a diameter of 56 centimetres (22 in), and a capacity of about 70 litres (15 imp gal; 18 US gal). It was made from seven curved plates of bronze riveted together, forming a ...
Shang dynasty, 1300–1046 BC. Like other ritual bronze shapes, the ding was originally an ordinary ceramic cooking, serving and storage vessel, dating back to the Chinese Neolithic, and ceramic dings continued to be used during and after the period when ceremonial bronze versions were made.
A Bronze Age cauldron, and flesh-hook, made from sheet bronze. The Holy Grail of Arthurian legend is sometimes referred to as a "cauldron", although traditionally the grail is thought of as a hand-held cup rather than the large pot that the word "cauldron" usually is used to mean. This may have resulted from the combination of the grail legend ...
Silver was not a common material in Celtic art, and certainly not on this scale. Except sometimes for small pieces of jewellery, gold or bronze were more usual for prestige metalwork. [18] At the time that the Gundestrup cauldron was created, silver was obtained through cupellation of lead / silver ores. [2]
The Dunaverney Flesh-Hook is a sophisticated bronze artefact from Prehistoric Ireland, thought to be an item of ceremonial feasting gear, and a symbol of authority. It is believed it was used to remove chunks of meat from a stew in a large cauldron for serving. It dates to the Late Bronze Age, between 1050 and 900 BC.
A riveted bronze cauldron; Three buckets or situlae; Numerous tools including chisels and knives. The hoard contains all but two of the Bronze Age crotals (Greek 'crotalon' – castanet or rattle) ever found, the other two also being Irish (but see also crotal bell for later types). These are bronze cylinders in the rough shape of a bull's ...
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44 bronze items consisting of the ring of a large cauldron and fragments of spearheads, swords and dagger blades; point of a bronze spearhead; contorted bronze sword, broken in two, with three rivet holes and a slot in the hilt plate; contorted point of a bronze sword; blade of a bronze sword broken off under the hilt and bent back at the point.