The earliest beaten bronze vessels associated with ceremonial and perhaps ritual feasting
and drinking occur in the Bronze D phase of the thirteenth century BC in Central
Europe.
Beaten bronze cups in a succession of variant forms are characteristic of the Urnfield late Bronze Age ... Friedrichsruhe and Fuchsstadt cups, with decorated variants such as
those from the Dresden-Dobritz hoard date from the end of Bronze D through Hallstatt A1 and A2
source:THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF CELTIC ART - D.W. Harding
photo: Landesmuseum fur Vorge-schichte, Dresden, copyright Landesmt fur Archaologie Sachsen
