Hospitality on a large scale was probably an obligation for Celtic elites, and although cauldrons were therefore an important item of prestige metalwork, they are usually much plainer and smaller than this. Other aspects of the iconography derive from the Near East. The techniques and elements of the style of the panels relate closely to other Thracian silver, while much of the depiction, in particular of the human figures, relates to the Celts, though attempts to relate the scenes closely to Celtic mythology remain controversial. Р”Вespite the fact that the vessel was found in Denmark, it was probably not made there or nearby it includes elements of Gaulish and Thracian origin in the workmanship, metallurgy, and imagery. Altogether the weight is just under 9 kilograms. Other techniques were used to add detail, and there is extensive gilding and some use of inlaid pieces of glass for the eyes of figures. All the other plates are heavily decorated with repoussР“В© work, hammered from beneath to push out the silver. The base plate is mostly smooth and undecorated inside and out, apart from a decorated round medallion in the centre of the interior. The cauldron is not complete, and now consists of a rounded cup-shaped bottom making up the lower part of the cauldron, usually called the base plate, above which are five interior plates and seven exterior ones a missing eighth exterior plate would be needed to encircle the cauldron, and only two sections of a rounded rim at the top of the cauldron survive. It is now usually on display in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, with replicas at other museums during 2015РІР‚вЂњ16 it was in the UK on a travelling exhibition called The Celts.

It was found dismantled, with the other pieces stacked inside the base, in 1891 in a peat bog near the hamlet of Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark ( 56РІВвЂћ9РІР‚Р†N 9РІВС“3РІР‚Р†E РїВ»С— / РїВ»С— 56.817Р’В°N 9.550РІВР‹ РїВ»С— / 56.817 9.550).

The cauldron is the largest known example of European Iron Age silver work (diameter: 69Р’В cm (27Р’В in) height: 42Р’В cm (17Р’В in)). This places it within the late La TР“РЃne period or early Roman Iron Age. The Gundestrup cauldron is a richly decorated silver vessel, thought to date from between 200 BC and 300 AD, or more narrowly between 150 BC and 1 BC. Another view from left, exterior plates b, f, a

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