Drawings Bronze Age gold cape from Mold, Flintshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.34.19
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1833
1836
1836
Material
paper
pencil
Wash
pencil
Wash
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 264mm
Width: 194mm
Width: 194mm
Inscriptions
Inscription content
Gold Corselet found at Mold in Flintshire
A portion drawn to full size.
Archaeol. Vol. XXVI.p.428
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.