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Drawings Bronze Age gold cape from Mold, Flintshire

Object number

LDSAL2020.38.263

Artist/Designer/Maker

Basire, James - Attributed To

Production date

1833
1836

Material

Paper
Ink
Wash
Pen

Technique

Drawing

Dimensions

Height: 160mm
Width: 223mm
Height (of Mount): 202mm
Width (of Mount): 270mm

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Gold Corselet found at Mold in Flintshire.
Archæol. Vol. XXVI. p 428.

Inscription content

Fig. 1.

Inscription content

The dimensions of the above Breastplate are as follows, Its extreme length 43 inches, its breadth at the points marked 1-1; 5 inches; d[itt]o 2-2; 9 inches; d[itt]o 3-3; 9½ inches; d[itt]o 4-4; 8 inches; d[itt]o 5-5; 10 inches; and d[itt]o 6-6; 6 inches. It is of one piece of solid gold, the ornaments not being laid on but embossed in high relief.

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. 1, 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.