Keshcarrigan Bowl

[1][2][6] The bowl is a fine golden bronze only 14 centimetres (5.5 in) wide and 1 millimetre (0.039 in) in thickness, being cast or beaten into shape before being finished and polished by being spun on a lathe.

[11] The brilliantly modeled ducks-head handle on the Keshcarrigan bowl is an early masterpiece of the style, comparable to the best British work of the period such as the bird-finials on the Torrs Chamfrein horns,[3] the stylistic identity of both heads representing ducks, and both having empty slots for studs in the eyes.

[2][3][9] Metal handled cups are a feature of late La Tène culture, and their production might have been stimulated by the re-appearance of wine-services imported from the Classical world.

[18] O'Toole suggested the Keshcarrigan Bowl represents evidence for the movement of people into Ireland following upheavals in Celtic Europe in the century before and after the birth of Christ.

Gallic Belgic tribes crossed into Britain as refugees from the Romans and displacing native people some of whom came to Ireland.