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Article: Call to return bronze-age relic; GOLD CAPE OF MOLD: AM urges British Museum to return artefact to North Wales.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- January 25, 2002
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Byline: DARREN DEVINE
A DISPUTE similar to the one that surrounds the Elgin Marbles has begun over the return of a 4,000-yearold bronze-age artefact to its original home.
North Wales AM Alison Halford said yesterday that the Gold Cape of Mold should be returned to its home in the Flintshire town.
In a demand reminiscent of the campaign over the Elgin Marbles, she pressed for moves to enable the bronze-age artefact to be handed back by the British Museum.
The corselet is held at the British Museum because it is ...