cauldron

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Object Type: cauldron
Museum number: 1861,0309.1
Title: Object: The Battersea Cauldron
Description: Sheet bronze cauldron, created by riveting together seven shaped plates of sheet bronze; the upper ones are sharply out-turned and corrugated for strength; a separate tubular binding was added to the rim; then two free-running ring handles attached by riveted straps; rivets and ornamental stays secure rim to shoulder.
Cultures/periods: Late Bronze Age; Early Iron Age
Production date: 800BC-600BC (circa)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Battersea, Recovered during dredging near Battersea before 1861 (near); Found/Acquired: Thames, River
Materials: copper alloy
Type series: Class B2 (Type Battersea)
Technique: riveted; beaten; cast
Dimensions: Diameter: 560 millimetres; Height: 405 millimetres
Bibliographic references: Gerloff 2010 / Atlantic Cauldrons and Buckets of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Ages in Western Europe (p. 163, no. 48)
Location: On display (G51/dc10)
Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2022 17 Feb - 17 Jul, London, BM, G30, The world of Stonehenge 2017- 2018 20 Oct - 28 Feb, London, British Library, Harry Potter: A History of Magic
Acquisition name: Purchased from: William Godwin
Acquisition date: 1861
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1861,0309.1
Conservation: Treatment: 19 Jul 2017; Treatment: 02 Jul 1996; Treatment: 26 Mar 2007; treatment: 8 5 24

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