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Prehistoric objects in the British Museum
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?
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