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Solvognen Geocoin Foged's Bronze Sun Chariot

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Friday, August 31, 2007
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Denmark
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The original sun chariot. The front.

Trundholm sun chariot.

It was discovered in 1902 in the Trundholm moor in West Zealand County on the northwest coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark, in a region known as Odsherred (approx. 55°55'N, 11°37'E).


The disk is interpreted as a depiction of the sun. It is unclear if the sun is imagined as being itself a chariot, or as riding in a chariot. A model of a horse-drawn vehicle on spoked wheels in Northern Europe at such an early time is astonishing, the earliest known actual chariots (as opposed to ox-drawn carts on solid wheels without spokes) in Europe are from the Iron Age, dating from ca. the 6th century BC (see Etruscan chariot). But Bronze Age single spoked wheels have been found in Switzerland (Corcelettes), Drenthe (Netherlands) and Stade (Germany).
The disk has a diameter of ca. 25 cm, and is gilded on only one side, the right-hand one relative to the horse. This has been interpreted as an indication of the belief that the sun is drawn across the heavens from East to West during the day, showing its bright side, and back from West to East during the night, showing its dark side.
Professor of Archeology at the University of Copenhagen, Klaus Randsborg has shown that you can add the number of spirals in each circle of the disk, timed by the number of the circle in which they are found, counted from the middle (1x1 + 2x8 + 3x20 + 4x25). The result is 177, which comes very close to the number of days in 6 synodic months, only 44 min 2.8 s shorter each. This shows that the disk was designed by a person with some measure of astronomic knowledge and that it may have functioned as a calendar.
Date
The chariot has been dated to the 14th and the 15th centuries BC.

This coin was made for the Rørvig summerevent 2007, by pli and Hr. & Fru Danmark

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Dropped Off 6/2/2011 tifoza placed it in TB&Coin-Hotel Landkamp Airport Bayern, Germany - 142.04 miles  Visit Log
Visited 5/29/2011 tifoza took it to Schneewittchen - Sieben Berge und sieben Zwerge Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 482.92 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/27/2011 tifoza retrieved it from ...noch ´ne Verschlüsselung! Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany   Visit Log

Wir nehmen dich mal ein Stück mit.

Grüße aus Oberhausen
Martina und Rolf

Discovered It 5/24/2011 Hilladidi discovered it   Visit Log

Heute bei der Cachekontrolle gesehen...

Dropped Off 5/7/2011 Emil & die Detektive placed it in ...noch ´ne Verschlüsselung! Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - 1,148.93 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/19/2011 Emil & die Detektive retrieved it from Elmo, the Athlete Malta   Visit Log

Sorry! Back in Germany...thought it came from Denmark.
Will search an interessting place.

Dropped Off 4/19/2011 swb-gc placed it in Elmo, the Athlete Malta - 862.61 miles  Visit Log
  • near Fort St. Elmo in Valletta
Dropped Off 4/8/2011 feit placed it in alles Kernspalterei... Niederösterreich, Austria - 80.66 miles  Visit Log

The photo shows the light water nuclear reactor Zwentendorf. This is no "normal" historical building but a piece of history in Austria.
The construction of the atomic power plant was started in 1972, but there was a big resistance against the use of atomic energy in Austria so the former chancellor Kreisky decided to make a popular vote about this nuclear reactor a few years later. On 5th November 1978 50,47% of the citizen rejected the use of atomic energy in Austria. Since this day Austria has a fully equipped atomic power plant which never went in work and no other nuclear reactor followed. Now this old building is used for training of nuclear engineers of other countries and as a kind of museum.
Perhaps other countries can't understand this attitude but we Austrians are very skeptical about atomic energy because in our minds it's too dangerous.

This entry was edited by feit on Saturday, 09 April 2011 at 06:52:32 UTC.

  • zwentendorf_1 In front of the nuclear power plant.
  • zwentendorf_2 The reactor pressure vessel from above.
  • zwentendorf_3 In the control room.
Retrieve It from a Cache 4/7/2011 swb-gc retrieved it from alles Kernspalterei... Niederösterreich, Austria   Visit Log

Werde den TB mit nach Malta nehmen und ihn an einem historischen Ort ablegen.

Discovered It 4/6/2011 Aichinga discovered it   Visit Log

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