Bronze Age riveted sheet bronze bucket
Abstract
A bucket of riveted sheet-bronze with a concave base and wheel-shaped base plate. The upper half is two sheets of bronze joined by flat-headed rivets and a rolled rim neck. The handles are lozenge-sectioned circular rings within ribbed staples riveted to the neck. Repoussé decoration forms horizontal bands of low bosses on the shoulder with filled pendant triangles below. This sort of decoration is known on continental buckets of the last millennium BC but is rarely found on Irish-British metalwork. Found in Cape Castle Bog, Armoy in Co. Antrim.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts
Archaeological and Geological Studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Publication date
- 11 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Dataset