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A Celtic Feast - The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire (Paperback)
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A Celtic Feast - The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire (Paperback)
Series: British Museum Research Publication, 203
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This volume presents for the first time the results of the
excavation and scientific analysis between 2005 and 2013 of
seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a large pit on farmland
in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and consequently acquired by
the British Museum. The assemblage is unprecedented in many
respects and is the largest known single deposit of prehistoric
cauldrons from Europe. The hoard was deposited in the fourth or
third centuries BC, although hoarding as a practice is generally
underrepresented during this period. The inclusion in the hoard of
rare decorated cauldrons also means that it is one of very few
deposits from Britain dating to the middle Iron Age known to
contain multiple objects decorated with Celtic art and the only
example where it is possible to ascertain that decorated objects
were all deposited at the same time. Scientific investigation has
revealed that the cauldrons were complicated to manufacture and
sophisticated techniques such as quenching were used to make them.
Examination of food residues adhering to the vessels demonstrates
that they were used to prepare and serve both meat and vegetable
based dishes probably including stews, gruels and porridges. The
discovery of so many contemporary vessels in one deposit has
important implications for our understanding of middle Iron Age
society in southern Britain. Thought to be vessels made and used
for feasting, the capacity represented by the Chiseldon Hoard
indicates the potential in these societies to host feasts with many
hundreds, if not thousands of participants, demonstrating levels of
sophistication and organisation traditionally viewed as being
beyond societies with relatively flat social hierarchies.
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