Site Name: Elvanfoot
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Bronze Cauldron
Council: South Lanarkshire
Parish: Crawford
Map Sheet: NS91NE
Grid Reference: 295250, 617130
Canmore Number: 47291
Non-Statutory Register Code: F
WoSASPIN 10377
NS c. 952 171.
An Iron Age cauldron, made from a single sheet of bronze, was acquired by the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, as part of the Bishop collection (Acc No: B.1951.3224). It was reputed to come from Elvanfoot village (NS 952 171), but neither the circumstances of the discovery, nor any associated finds, were recorded by Bishop. It cannot be dated any more closely than in the range from the 1st century BC to the 2nd century AD, if not even later.
J Burns 1969; M G Spratling 1971
This may have been a votive deposit.
RCAHMS 1978
Spratling, M G , 'Further comments on the Iron Age cauldron from Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire', Glasgow Archaeol J, Vol 2, 1971, pp.111-12.(1971)
RCAHMS , The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. Edinburgh.(1978)
Macgregor, M , Early Celtic art in north Britain: a study of decorative metalwork from the third century B.C. to the third century A.D.. Leicester.(1976)
Burns, J , 'A bronze cauldron of the Iron Age from Elvanfoot, Lanarkshire', Glasgow Archaeol J, Vol 1, 1969, pp.29-34.(1969)