The Gundestrup Cauldron (National Museum of Denmark)

This is the National Museum of Denmark's own custodial record for the Gundestrup Cauldron, the museum that holds, conserves and catalogues the artifact and administers its public interpretation. As the holding institution's own standing record it is authoritative for provenance and custody facts, where and when the cauldron was found and how the museum dates and describes it. Its limit is that it is an institutional record rather than a scholarly publication, so a claim about the cauldron's contested origin, whether Thracian, Gaulish or Celtic workmanship, or about the meaning of its imagery, needs a separate scholarly source engaging that debate directly rather than the museum's own catalogue account.