The Gundestrup cauldron is a large, richly decorated silver bowl found in a peat bog in Himmerland in northern Jutland, Denmark. It is made of silver plates embossed with figures of gods, animals and warriors, and it was apparently deliberately dismantled and deposited as an offering. Its style combines elements that scholars link to Thracian silverwork and to Celtic imagery, and the debate over where and when it was made continues, with most estimates placing it in the last centuries before the Common Era. One plate shows a horned figure often compared with the Celtic god Cernunnos. It is held in the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.
Before and after
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- 1891Discovery of Gundestrup cauldron
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- 11 April 1891Birth of Sergei Prokofiev
- 3 May 1891Birth of Mikhail Bulgakov
- 16 September 1891Birth of Karl Dönitz
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