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A Bronze Bucket in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 November 2011
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In their paper on some buckets and cauldrons of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages published in this journal, our Fellows, Professor Hawkes and Mrs. Brown (then Miss M. A. Smith), stated that they had been unable to obtain information concerning a certain bucket listed by Leeds. In his earlier study Leeds had quoted Armstrong, saying that the bucket (Leeds's no. 14), ‘formerly in the possession of the Rev. W. F. Falkiner, of Killucan, Co. Westmeath, was removed from Ireland and is now in private hands in Scotland’. There is a bronze bucket of the Irish-British type, as defined by Hawkes and Smith, in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow. It was acquired by the museum in 1914 and forms part of the Bishop Collection. A. Henderson Bishop of Thorntonhall, Lanarkshire, was an active collector and several prehistoric artifacts in his collection, including this bucket, are labelled as having come from Ireland. Nothing more is known of its provenance but there is evidence to suggest that it is almost certainly the bucket referred to by Leeds.
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page 12 note 5 I wish to thank Mrs. Vandeleur for permission to publish Falkiner's sketch, which was photographed in the National Museum of Ireland and is reproduced by permission, and Mr. Etienne Rynne of the National Museum of Ireland for information concerning Falkiner.
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page 12 note 7 Permission to publish the bucket (museum accession number B. 1914.344) was given by the Court of the University of Glasgow. Through the good offices of our Fellow, Miss Anne S. Robertson of the Hunterian Museum, photographs (pls. xii-xiv) were taken by the museum staff. Mr. Euan W. MacKie, also of the Hunterian Museum, kindly drew the bucket (fig. 1) and gave much assistance to the writer in the preparation of this note.
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