Battersea Cauldron
The boiler of Battersea ( English Battersea Cauldron ) is a bronze vessel , the v to 800 to 700th BC, the beginning of the Iron Age is dated. It is one of around 60 similar Iron Age cauldrons in Great Britain and Ireland .
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The cauldron was found in 1857 during construction work for Chelsea Bridge , in the mud of the Thames near Battersea Bridge in London . It was bought by the British Museum shortly after its discovery . Other Roman and Celtic weapons (including the Waterloo helmet and the Battersea shield ) and skeletons have been found in the area, which historians suggest that 54 BC was found here. Chr. Julius Caesar's crossing of the Thames took place in the course of his campaigns against Britain .
The kettle is 40.5 centimeters high, 56 centimeters in diameter and has a capacity of around 70 liters. It consists of seven curved and riveted bronze plates that form a vessel with a round body and a narrower neck. The opening widens, reinforced by corrugations on the edge, which have a separate binding. Two ring handles are attached to riveted brackets. As a large vessel for preparing food or drinks, it may have been used for parties and has stains and repairs. It has been in use for an extended period, perhaps generations, and may have been deliberately thrown into the river as a sacrifice.
literature
- Sabine Gerloff: Atlantic Cauldrons and Buckets of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Western Europe. Prehistoric bronze finds II.18. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.