Cape Castle Bucket

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 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