Casgliadau Arlein

This brim fragment has a raised circular corrugation, concentric with the inner and outer edge and the remnants of a further possible grooved circular corrugation on the inner side. This fragment forms the overlap and join of two brim sheets, possibly once beneath a handle strap (though there is no evidence of rod holes for securing the handle on this fragment). One straight brim edge is bordered by two circular headed rivets (one slightly flattened, the other dome headed), whose heads are on the underside of the brim. A second pair of rivets presumably secured the other end of the overlapped brim join. One circular headed rivet remains on the outer side, though the inner position is visible as a torn rivet hole along a break line. Towards the partially concealed outer margin of the brim, the upper and lower sheet fragments curve outwards to form the remains of a circular tube, now broken. Similarly, behind the inner margin of the brim appears to be a displaced and flattened inner brim angle, once expanded into a tubular section. Folded onto both the front and the back of the brim are cauldron sheet fragments, possibly attached to the brim and forming part of the cauldron upper body. Revealed on the X-ray is a concealed circular headed rivet secured to this folded sheet.