{"id":10615,"date":"2019-06-10T15:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10615"},"modified":"2019-06-10T15:03:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T21:03:13","slug":"secrets-of-the-gundestrup-cauldron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=10615","title":{"rendered":"Secrets of the Gundestrup Cauldron"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gundestrop Cauldron is one of the best-known Pagan artworks from Iron Age Europe. You can even buy inexpensive replicas.<\/a>((Just for information \u2014 I get no commission on this,\u00a0 and I see that it is out of stock at the moment anyway.))<\/p>\n

What the reproductions will not have are the “ghosts,” as detailed in this post from the Balkan Celts<\/em> blog:<\/a><\/p>\n

While extensive academic attention has been paid to the cauldron\u2019s iconography and origin over the past century, one fascinating element has been completely overlooked until recently. Scientific research on the back of the cauldron\u2019s silver plate, using a ?bre illumination unit, as well as silicone rubber moulds, epoxy resin replica and macro photography, have revealed \u2018Ghost Images\u2019 unseen to the human eye for over 2,000 years.<\/p>\n

The images, drawn lightly into the backs of the silver plates with a scriber and which are almost invisible to the naked eye, include a male figure 4.4 cm. discovered in the lower right corner on the back of inner plate C6572. The man is depicted in pro?le and blowing a horn instrument. It is worth noting that this instrument looks quite different from the relatively much longer instruments played by the three carnyx players depicted on the front of\u00a0inner plate C6574.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Given that this was such a prestige item, I would have expected a better final polish job. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Gundestrop Cauldron is one of the best-known Pagan artworks from Iron Age Europe. You can even buy inexpensive replicas.((Just for information \u2014 I get no commission on this,\u00a0 and I see that it is out of stock at the moment anyway.)) What the reproductions will not have are the “ghosts,” as detailed in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,38],"class_list":["post-10615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archaeology","tag-celts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2Ld","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":654,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=654","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":0},"title":"Celts, Wine, and the Northern League","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 21, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Northern Italy's wine industry may owe its origin to the Celts. Let's remember, though, that \"Celtic\" most accurately describes a group of languages, not an ethnic group.But this bit caught my eye:Interest in all things Celtic -- from music to mystical rites -- took off in northern Italy in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Celts\"","block_context":{"text":"Celts","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=celts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7469,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7469","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":1},"title":"“Trace What It Means To Be Celtic”","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"September 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In their book Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music, Donna Weston and Andy Bennett use the term \"cardiac Celts . . . people who feel in their heart that they are Celtic.\" They are not the only ones who use it \u2014 but I wonder if this new British Museum\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":752,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=752","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":2},"title":"Who’s a Celt now? – 6","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 29, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,Part 4, Part 5Everything that we thought we knew about Celtic culture is probably wrong.But there is still language, right? If \"Celtic\" is not a genetic code, and it's not a spirituality, at least there are Celtic languages: Gaulish, Cornish, British-leading-to-Welsh, Irish and Scots Gaelic,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":740,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=740","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":3},"title":"Who’s a Celt now?-1","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"October 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"When I blogged the recent local Celtic music festival, I promised more on the tangled web of Celticity. This foggy, rainy, sleeting night seems a perfect time to begin.Take the assertion of Stephen Oppenheimer, an anthropologist who has published on the ancient populations of the British Isles:\"Celt\" is now a\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7896,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7896","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":4},"title":"Magic in Philadelphia, Worshiping Game Characters, and a Holy Mountain in Scotland","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"April 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 If you live in or near Philadelphia, visit the U. of Pennsylvania museum for \"Magic in the Anciet World,\" an exhibit that \"explores some of the magical objects, words, and rituals used in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome.\" \u2022 When a Chinese grandmother left an offering at a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Celts\"","block_context":{"text":"Celts","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=celts"},"img":{"alt_text":"exhibitions_magic1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/exhibitions_magic1-1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7761,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=7761","url_meta":{"origin":10615,"position":5},"title":"How Do You Wear a Torc?","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"February 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"So you are feeling sort of Iron Age-ish and want to wear your best torc for a night of feasting. Do you go with the twist-on, twist-off style or for the more sophisticated hidden hinge? Let the experts at the British Museum help you with your fashion dilemma. A re-enactor\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"archaeology\"","block_context":{"text":"archaeology","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=archaeology"},"img":{"alt_text":"ChieftansTorc","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.chasclifton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/ChieftansTorc.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10619,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10615\/revisions\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}