Drawings Bronze Age gold cape from Mold, Flintshire
Object number
LDSAL2020.38.259
Artist/Designer/Maker
Basire, James - Artist
Production date
1833
1836
1836
Material
paper
pencil
ink
Wash
Brush
pencil
ink
Wash
Brush
Technique
Drawing
Dimensions
Height: 122mm
Width: 182mm
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.