Like I said, grain of salt. Pliny the Elder also wrote of monstrous races, the Cynocephali or Dog-Heads, the Sciapodae, whose single foot could act as a sunshade, the mouthless Astomi, who lived on scents as being true living beings on the edge of the world.

What statue is it? And is it a druid or probably a druid or mythological figure? And yes cauldrons were important items in Celtic mythology.