Cape Castle Bucket

Description

Culture: [Bronze Age](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0kh9ds7q8m) Material: Bronze Dims: H 45.5cm diam 36cm Accession No: HCA 460 Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/) [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html) A sheet-bronze bucket with a concave base protected by a base plate. The upper portion is two sheets riveted together with flat-headed rivets and a vertical neck with rolled rim. A riveted internal patch covers a large hole. Handles are lozenge-sectioned circular rings within ribbed staples. [Repoussé](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300054023) decoration on the shoulder forms a band of rows of bosses with filled pendant triangles below. This is known on continental buckets of the last millennium BC but is rare on Irish-British metalwork. Found in Cape Castle Bog, Armoy in [Co. Antrim](https://www.geonames.org/2657255/antrim.html)[More](https://www.huntmuseum.com/explore/item/46e44a5d-de61-34ce-a9a2-4aa9a711853a/?s%3DHCA+460&pos=1)