What: Gold necklace taken by Col Sydney Yorke

Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG

Taken by Col Sydney Yorke at British seizure of Magdala, Ethiopia in 1868

The catalogue entry describes a “necklace made of gold”

Detail
Museum number: Af1922,0715.1
Purchased from: Mrs Georgetta Dance
Field Collection by: Col Sydney Yorke
Acquisition date: 1922