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Drawings Bronze Age gold cape from Mold, Flintshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.34.19

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1833
1836

Material

Paper
Pencil
Wash

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 264mm
Width: 194mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Gold Corselet found at Mold in Flintshire
A portion drawn to full size.
Archaeol. Vol. XXVI.p.428

Inscription content

J. Basire delt.

References

Reference (free text)

John Gage, 'A Letter from John Gage, Director, to Sir Henry Ellis, Secretary, Accompanying a Gold British Corselet Exhibited to the Society, and Since Purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum', Archaeologia 26 (1836):422-31. Illustration (Engraving), pl. LI, between pp. 428 and 429.

Reference (free text)

T G E Powell, 'The Gold Ornament from Mold, Flintshire, North Wales', Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society new series 19 (1953): 161-79.

Reference (free text)

Joan J Taylor, Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), pp. 52, 96. Illustration, fig. h, pl. 29.

Reference (free text)

Bill Wyman and Richard Havers, Bill Wyman's Treasure Islands: Britain's History Uncovered (Stroud: Sutton, 2005), pp. 280-1. Illustration, p. 280.