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Drawings Bronze Age gold cape from Mold, Flintshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.259

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Artist

Production date

1833
1836

Material

paper
pencil
ink
Wash
Brush

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 122mm
Width: 182mm

Inscriptions

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II.

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Fig. 2. full size.

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Gold Corselet found at Mold in Flintshire.

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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), fig. 2, pl. L, opp. p. 428.

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.