Early Iron Age bronze cauldron

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Early Iron Age bronze cauldron
Early Iron Age bronze cauldron
Early Iron Age bronze cauldron
Credit
By permission of Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales
Image ID
32351
Accession number
13.112
Title
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Early Iron Age bronze cauldron
Identification
Identifier
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Creator
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Material
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metal
Northover's composition group
copper alloy
Northover's composition group: T3
Technique
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Category
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hoard
Usage
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Period
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Early Iron Age
BC 650
BC 700
Late Bronze Age
Additional information
This cauldron could hold about 50 litres of stew, enough to feed over 100 people. It was suspended by its handles over a fire during special feasting events. It was designed to impress. Sheets of bronze were hammered to shape by hand, then carefully riveted together.

Cauldrons were prized across Atlantic Europe as communal feasting vessels. This one was carefully buried in the lake at Llyn Fawr, in the Cynon Valley. It was found as part of a hoard, buried in peat.
Keywords
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Halstatt 'C'
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verified
Place
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Llyn Fawr, Rhigos, Rhondda, Mid Glamorgan, South Wales, Wales, Place
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