Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Casket

Ornate casket made of 'Thomas steel' presented to Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, Welsh steel process inventor, by the Prager Eisenindustrie Gesellschaft in Vienna in 1882. Mild steel with some ornate cast iron decoration symbolic of S.G.T. process of extracting phosphorus impurities from pig iron.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

76.14I/1

Acquisition

Donation, 28/4/1976

Measurements

Length (mm): 331
Width (mm): 375
Height (mm): 350

Material

steel
cast iron

Location

In store

Classification

events commemorative
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