Summary

Bronze wine flagon handle decorated with the head of Medusa and a deer, from Cairnholy, Kirkcudbrightshire, 80 - 200 AD

Accession Number

X.FR 224

Other references

Original description

Romano-British Pottery, Glass Vessels, &c. Bronze handle of large vessel, with head of Medusa, a deer, &c., partly inlaid with silver. Cairnholly, Kirkcudbright. Anon note, Should be F T. (F. Hunter note, 22/1/96: The handle was found during ploughing on the farm of Cairnholy; there is no association with the chambered cairns. Source - M M'L Harper 1896, Rambles in Galloway, 2nd edition, Dalbeattie; Thomas Fraser). F. Hunter note, 2013-01-21: Surface XRF analysis showed that the alloy was a bronze (analytical report 96/25).

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Cairnholy, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1889

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir, 7th Baronet of Monreith, 1845 - 1937

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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