Bronze Age Gold from Wales
Copper ingot
Copper ingot smelted by the Cape Copper Company of Briton Ferry Copper Works and recovered from the wreck of the S.S. ST. GEORGE. The St. George was wrecked off St. Agnes Head, North Cornwall on the 28 November 1882, outward bound from Swansea for Nantes, France, with '500 tons of coal, 100 tons of copper ingots'.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2002.158/1
Creation/Production
Cape Copper Company
Date: 1882
Acquisition
Purchase, 19/9/2002
Measurements
Length
(mm): 290
Width
(mm): 70
Height
(mm): 70
Weight
(kg): 7.85
Material
copper
Location
In store
Classification
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