A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fia. 143.—Mold pej-trel on pony. Fig. Hi.—Gold toLc, Boyton,Suffolk, i plate as originally worn, fragments of the lining being shown atthe side ; and was found just seventy years ago with a mans bonesin a cist which had been covered with three or four hundred loadsof pebbles and other stones, forming a cairn called Bryn-yr Ellyllon(Hill of the Fairies or Goblins), near the river Alun at Mold,Flintshire. There were also in the cist many amber beads andremains of coarse cloth, which had been fast
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . Fia. 143.—Mold pej-trel on pony. Fig. Hi.—Gold toLc, Boyton,Suffolk, i plate as originally worn, fragments of the lining being shown atthe side ; and was found just seventy years ago with a mans bonesin a cist which had been covered with three or four hundred loadsof pebbles and other stones, forming a cairn called Bryn-yr Ellyllon(Hill of the Fairies or Goblins), near the river Alun at Mold,Flintshire. There were also in the cist many amber beads andremains of coarse cloth, which had been fastened round the edgesof the peytrel as a fringe (fig. 143). Traces of iron are also said tohave been noticed, and two or three j^ards from the spot was founda cinerary urn. A romantic story is also told of the discovery,which has been attributed to second-sight; and several pieces,including the gold straps for fastening, were lost after the peytrel 150 GOLD ORNAMENT ROOM : CASE K had been thrown aside as worthless. Several of these pieces havebeen recovered, and presented at intervals by vari
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