Caergwrle Bowl: A gold-decorated bowl discovered in a boggy field in Wales — and may have been left by Bronze Age sailors as an offering to the gods

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Name: Caergwrle Bowl

What it is: A shale bowl with gold and tin decorations

Where it is from: Caergwrle Castle, in Wales

When it was made: Circa 1300 to 1150 B.C.

About 200 years ago, while digging in a boggy field in Wales, a worker…

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