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Mold gold cape, British Museum. The cape is 458 mm (18.0 in) wide. It was designed to fit someone of a very slight build, perhaps a teenager, and although the sex of the person buried in this grave remains unclear, the associated finds are likely, by comparison with similar contemporary graves discovered, to be those accompanying the burial of a woman. [9]
Mold Cape detail. Local politicians including two Delyn Assembly Members, Alison Halford, [1] [2] and Hannah Blythyn, [3] Denbighshire councillor Mabon ap Gwynfor, [4] former librarian of the National Library of Wales Andrew Green, [5] [6] the Celtic League and Plaid Cymru Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd have called for the Mold gold cape to be repatriated back to Wales.
The Mold cape, a gold cape from Wales dating to 1900–1700 BC.. Prehistoric Wales in terms of human settlements covers the period from about 230,000 years ago, the date attributed to the earliest human remains found in what is now Wales, to the year AD 48 when the Roman army began a military campaign against one of the Welsh tribes.
Finds from the Bush Barrow at Stonehenge, c. 1900 BC The Mold gold cape.Bronze Age, about 1900–1600 BC. From Mold, Flintshire, North Wales. The Wessex culture is the predominant prehistoric culture of central and southern Britain during the early Bronze Age, originally defined by the British archaeologist Stuart Piggott in 1938.
The Mold gold cape, which is a bronze age gold cape from Wales dating to 1900–1600 BC.. The archaeology of Wales (Welsh: Archaeoleg Cymru) is the study of human occupation within the country of Wales which has been occupied by modern humans since 225,000 BCE, with continuous occupation from 9,000 BCE. [1]
A History of the World in 100 Objects was a joint project of BBC Radio 4 and the British Museum, ... Mold gold cape: Wales: 1900–1600 BC: BBC: BM:
In 1836 Langford sold his piece to the museum, which has since acquired most of the pieces, though it is said that some wives of the workmen sported new jewellery after the find. The restored cape now belongs to the British Museum. [6] [7] Mold hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1923, 1991 and 2007. There was an unofficial National Eisteddfod ...
In South Wales, gold is found in a small area in the valley of the River Cothi at Dolaucothi where it is known to have been mined by the Romans. Celtic jewellery such as torcs were worn by early Welsh princes, and ancient gold artefacts found in Wales include the Mold Cape and the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, found at the Cwmystwyth Mines in 2002.