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Early Iron Age bronze cauldron
This cauldron could hold about 50 litres of stew, enough to feed 30-50 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.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
36.624/1
Find Information
Site Name: Llyn Fawr, Rhigos
Collection Method: Surface find
Date: 1911-1912
Notes: "found a little later" than and "near and in similar circumstances" to the main collection of the hoard under accession number 12.11 during the drainage of the lake for the construction of the reservoir (quotations taken from letters by George Stow to the Museum in 1936 and 1938, now in the accession file)
Acquisition
donation, 2/11/1936
Measurements
external diameter
(mm): 500.0 (of rim)
maximum diameter
(mm): 570.0 (girth)
Height
(mm): 336.0
Weight
(g): 6,200
internal diameter
(mm): 393.0 (of rim)
external diameter
(mm): 120.0 (of handles)
internal diameter
(mm): 90.0 (of handles)
Material
Copper alloy
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