Mold cape on display at the British Museum.
Artifact · Authenticated · London

Mold gold cape

Workmen found a gold cape crushed around a skeleton in a Welsh mound in 1833.

c. 1900-1600 BC

Who in Bronze Age Wales held enough power to be buried in gold?

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Photo: Mark Ramsay, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

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