Object: Bowl
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: National Museum of Science and Art, Dublin,Frontispiece 476 232 1903
Site: Ireland,Co. Londonderry,near Limavady,in the barony of Keenaght,townland of Broighter,found 1896, in a field on the farm of Mr. Joseph L. Gibson, by two ploughmen
Discovery context: farm
Parish: Limavady
County: County Londonderry
Country: Ireland
Year of discovery: 1896
Width (mm): 91.5, height 58.5
Weight (g): 35.33
Composition: Gold
Associations: Portion of the Broighter find
Description: Beaten out of a single thin sheet. It has 4 double perforations at equal distances round its rim with a small wire linked through each; in two cases a larger twisted ring hangs down from these like the handle of a cauldron. Round the outside, arranged in horizontal zones, are a series of faint punch marks, these Evans* suggested, might if they were more than mere tool marks, be a reminiscence of the rivetted plates of metal that formed the sides of Early Iron-Age cauldrons. He added later, "Perhaps it should therefore be regarded as the scale of a measure."
Publications: Archaeologia 55, pp. 393, 394