Trundholm Sun Chariot, Unknown artist, Nordic Bronze Age
Unknown artist, Nordic Bronze Age·Trundholm Sun Chariot·c. 1400 BCE·Bronze and gold leaf·National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen↓

Unknown artist, Nordic Bronze Age

Trundholm Sun Chariot, c. 1400 BCE

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A bronze horse on wheels pulls a large disc, gilded on one side and also mounted on wheels. It probably shows the sun being drawn across the sky, and may have been rolled along during religious rituals. Cast locally around 1400 BCE, it was found in a peat bog on Trundholm moor, on the Danish island of Zealand, in 1902.

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Only one face of the disc carries gold. It may show the bright day sun travelling west, with the dark side turned to the earth on its night journey back.

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