The Mold Cape gets on "A History of the World in 100 objects"

[agricola]

Mold gets a mention as the place of origin of the first of the genuinely British artefacts to make in onto the list, at No.19:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/okZT5JiCTn6lYFR0Gs9Tbg

 

[Infidel Castro]

Shit, that's a fancy bit of gear! Interesting (lack of) history to it, too!

 

[niclas]

It was found at Bryn yr Ellyllon (the Elves' Hill) near where the rugby club is today.

We should have it back - the replica in Mold library doesn't really do it justice. It came back to Wxm Museum a while back and thousands went to see it.

 

[Infidel Castro]

It's an impressive piece of hardware, fair play.

 

[agricola]

It was found at Bryn yr Ellyllon (the Elves' Hill) near where the rugby club is today.

We should have it back - the replica in Mold library doesn't really do it justice. It came back to Wxm Museum a while back and thousands went to see it.

I dunno, its better looked after and can be seen by more people in the British Museum than it ever will be in Mold. It would be nice to have it make some regular visits home, though.

 

[Brockway]

I dunno, its better looked after and can be seen by more people in the British Museum than it ever will be in Mold.

So anything that's vaguely interesting in 'Britain' should be immediately shipped off to London so that more people can see it. Hmmmnn.

I think we (Wales) should do a swap. They (England) could maybe have some of that Lord Nelson drek in Monmouth in exchange for our cape.

And how come the British Museum is called the British Museum? The couple of times I've been there it just seemed to be full of stuff ransacked from foreign countries. They should call it the English Imperial Museum or something.

 

[1927]

Shit, that's a fancy bit of gear! Interesting (lack of) history to it, too!

Mmmm! What history were you expecting exactly? Its not like they were likely to find the bronze age owner to ask them about it, or maybe have the original receipt!

 

[Infidel Castro]

Mmmm! What history were you expecting exactly? Its not like they were likely to find the bronze age owner to ask them about it, or maybe have the original receipt!

"A History of the World in 100 Objects, only we don't know what no.19 was for..."

It doesn't seem to fulfil the OP of the Beeb's plan .

 

[editor]

It's Bronze Age Bling innit?

Must feel really weird trying it on now:

Amazing fact! "The gold ingot from which this cape was made would have been about the size of a ping pong ball"

 

[Infidel Castro]

I reckon it was a bit of posh toilet fascia, back in the day like.

 

[agricola]

Even three thousand years ago, Gog civilization was streets ahead of anything seen in the South.

 

[Infidel Castro]

Even three thousand years ago, Gog civilization was streets ahead of anything seen in the South.

Nonsense. We'd invented ping-pong-balls. How else would they be able to make a ping-pong-ball-sized piece of gold to then make whatever it is they made?