Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Dolaucothi gold mine, photograph
Three shaft sinkers in heavy oilskins and rubber boots, two bare headed and one with a Cornish-style resin-impregated felt helmet (the forerunner of plastic helmets), all holding large acetylene hand lamps, at Dolaucothi gold mines, Pumpsaint.
Image: By kind permission of Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales. © Unknown. If you have any information that may assist us in identifying a © holder, please contact image.licensing@museumwales.ac.uk
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
64.200/18
Creation/Production
unknown
Date: 1936 (circa)
Acquisition
Purchase, 15/5/1964
Measurements
Length
(mm): 118
Width
(mm): 131
Techniques
black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph
Material
paper
Location
In store
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