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The Mold gold cape. Bronze Age, about 1900-1600 BCE. From Mold, Flintshire, North Wales. This ceremonial cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design. It was labouriously beaten out of a single ingot of gold, then embellished with intense decoration of ribs and bosses to mimic multiple strings of beads amid folds of cloth. Weight 560 grams. Inv. 1836,0902.1.
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British Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART320607
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Public
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2780px × 1596px
Photo Credit
© The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY
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Bronze Age (3000-1000 BCE)
Cape, Clothing
England, Great Britain
English
Gold
Metalwork