• the Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a male skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales?

Facts on topics related to Mold cape

Cornwall

• Australian-born lumber executive John A. Campbell was said to have introduced surfing on the Cornwall coast of England?
• Cornwall's South West Coast Path came into being as a working path used by Revenue Officers to patrol the coast near Polperro in search of smugglers?
• chalcocite, a profitable and desirable kind of copper ore, was particularly plentiful in the now-depleted copper mines of Cornwall, England and Bristol, Connecticut?
• John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the man engine, an important reform in Cornish mining?
• about 600 ships have been wrecked on the Doom Bar at the estuary of the River Camel on Cornwall's north coast in the past 200 years?
• in 2002, Devon and Cornwall set up a scheme where travellers on rural railways were rewarded for visiting pubs along the route?
• most trains stop before reaching the platform at Coombe railway station in Cornwall, UK, and then reverse away?
• seven Cornish fishermen sailed to Australia in the lugger Mystery in 1854–55, a journey which is being recreated today by the Spirit of Mystery?
• some of the disused railway stations between Plymouth in Devon and Penzance in Cornwall, England, were closed during the "Beeching Axe" in the 1960s?

Bronze Age

• archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
• Oldbury-on-the-Hill, part of Didmarton, has a 30-metre (98 ft) Bronze Age round barrow called Nan Tow's Tump (pictured)?
• Ras Ibn Hani, a small cape located 8 km north of Latakia, Syria, was occupied almost continuously from the late Bronze Age until Byzantine times?
• St. Mary's Church (pictured) in Chesham, England, incorporates a Bronze Age stone circle in its foundations?
• the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and a Romano-British painted pebble?
• the Bronze Age gold Casco de Leiro was a fisherman's chance find on a beach in Galicia, Spain?
• the Mold cape (pictured) is a solid sheet-gold cape found in 1833 over the upper body of a male skeleton in a Bronze Age burial mound at Mold in Flintshire, North Wales?
• the Ngoc Lu is regarded as the most important drum of the Dong Son culture of the Bronze Age, whose artefacts have been found at Co Loa Citadel, Chau Can, Lang Ca, Lang Vac, Xuan La and Viet Khe?
• the ancient Bronze Age site of Ulug Depe in modern day Turkmenistan was once a flourishing agricultural town in the foothills of the Kopet Dag mountains?
• the island of Pseira, off the coast of Crete, has an archaeological history from the end of the Neolithic to the Late Bronze Age, with Minoan ruins being the most studied?

Bronze

• Fala, Franklin D. Roosevelt's beloved Scottish terrier and one of the most famous presidential pets, has a bronze statue in his likeness at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial?
• Tokugawa coinage (pictured) in Medieval Japan used a triple monetary standard, with gold, silver and bronze coins, each with their own denominations?
• a bronze bowl from the Iron Age Glastonbury Lake Village was made from the remnants of two separate vessels, before it was deposited in the peat?
• a substantially complete Greek bronze Apoxyomenos, or representation of an athlete, was recovered off the Croatian island of Lošinj in 1999?
• the nipples of the Ancient Greek statue Victorious Youth (pictured) were cast in copper to contrast with the bronze of the torso?
• the silver hand and bronze foot of Saint Melor were said to miraculously work as if they were natural appendages?
• the statue The Naked Truth, in Compton Hill Reservoir Park, was made of bronze instead of white marble to deemphasize the nudity?
• the largest known metal vessel from antiquity is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater (pictured) discovered at the Vix Grave in Burgundy, France in 1953?