2022-11-04 Fri

The magnificent bronze cauldron Cauldron is the best example of the sheet metalworkers crafted from offset bands of sheet bronze held in place by rows of conical rivets. The Cauldron is incurving at the shoulder; ends have everted rims decorated with four rows of the small hole. This magnificent bronze cauldron was found in a bog in Castlederg, Co Tyrone. Cauldrons like this one are at the root of the folk tales of “cauldrons of plenty” that survived for millennia in Europe. Castlederg Bronze Cauldron feature on a new stamp and in A History of Ireland in 100 Objects by An Post in 2017. Image Courtesy: colnect.com