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Abercairny
Cauldron (Bronze)
Site Name Abercairny
Classification Cauldron (Bronze)
Alternative Name(s) Abercairney
Canmore ID 26172
Site Number NN92SW 11
NGR NN 91 22
NGR Description NN c. 91 22
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fowlis Wester
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN92SW 11 c. 91 22
A globular cauldron from a bog at Abercairney is now in the Perth Museum. It is 27 1/2ins maximum diameter with patterning of oval hammer- or punch-marks. It is of 'Battersea' type as is the Blackburn Mill cauldron which has been shown by Hawkes (W F Grimes 1951) to be of La Tene III type and not earlier than the 1st century AD. (Could this cauldron have come from the Fendoch hoard? - see NN92NW 14).
S Piggott 1955
Nothing is known about this cauldron at Abercairny (NN 9118 2240) and local enquiries proved negative. It is on display in Perth Museum (Acc No: IE/1946).
Visited by OS (EGC) 19 December 1966.
Globular or 'Battersea' cauldron of beaten bronze found in a bog and now held in Perth Museum; it is in good condition although the rim and two handles (which were possibly originally of iron) are missing. The body is repaired in two places, one being an elaborate patch of 'paper clip' form, inserted from the inside and provided with an external washer of rectangular outline.
It measures about 61cm in diameter at the rim, and about 38.8 cm in depth. The body was hammered in a single piece and the metal is patterned with oval hammer- or punch-marks arranged in circles from centre base to just below the rim. The missing rim strengthening was originally attached by means of 14 rivets whose remaining holes are spaced at intervals of between 10.2 and 16.5 cm.
M Macgregor 1976.
