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Mold Gold Cape Research Paper

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The Mold Gold Cape is a gold cape found in Mold, North Wales thought to have been made between 1900 to 1600 C.E.(MacGregor, pg 117) The dimensions of the cape are 23.5 centimetres high 46 .5 centimeters wide and 28 centimeters in depth, it looks like a gold short Poncho that goes over the head and has a thin gold plating to it. From how the metal looks you can tell that it was struck from The inside out to create the rivets and holes that you can see. The cape was found with amber beads,bronze fragments ,and the gold cape on a skeleton when it was found in 1833 by some local stone workers. Because of the people who found the object the cape was split into multiple pieces and it took the British Museum of London over a hundred years …show more content…

this case is kind of showing why archaeologists get so angry when people mess with their sites. it is significant to history Because the object is gold and it was something that a person would wear end they were they wouldn't use gold as money they would use gold as important objects in like I look this person have gold so it means they have an important status and the fact that it was a cape that was born makes it all the more important for the society we can it guess that the person who was the leader of the group. The North American Otter Pipe is a stone pipe that was found in Mound City, Ohio, USA it is believed to have been made between a time of 200 BCE and 100 CE. (MacGregor, pg 235) The dimensions of the pipe are 5.1 centimeters for height, 10 centimeters for width and 3.3 centimeters for depth, It looks like a kazoo for the size and shape of it but it is made of a reddish stone it is like that of a modern pipe for the effect that has the small hole for the part where

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