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Some researchers have suggested that the Caergwrle Bowl represents a mythological [[Solar Deity#Solar vessels and Sun chariots|solar boat]].<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzh0pnpZudw|title=The World of the Nebra Sky Disc: The Caergwrle Ship|last=Meller|first=Harald|website=Halle State Museum of Prehistory|date=2022}}</ref> Similarities have been noted with the contemporary miniature [[Nordic Bronze Age|gold boats from Nors]] in Denmark, and with the later [[Broighter Gold|Broighter gold boat]] from Ireland.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx_lxoNwpBo|title=The World of the Nebra Sky Disc: The Nors Boats|last=Meller|first=Harald|website=Halle State Museum of Prehistory|date=2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1980.tb01296.x|journal=The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology|volume=9|issue=3|date=1980|title=The Caergwrle Bowl—A possible prehistoric boat model|last1=Denford|first1=G.T.|last2=Farrell|first2=A.W.|doi=10.1111/j.1095-9270.1980.tb01296.x|pages=183–192|quote=Analogies exist between the concentric circles [on the Caergwrle bowl] and a large body of finds referred to in the literature as sun discs. Butler (1963) refers to "the golden sun disc, symbol of a Bronze Age cult or religion common to the British Isles, northern Europe and wider areas as well". … the concentric circles or ‘solar discs’ on the Nors Boats must be mentioned here. … Numerous recorded examples exist of sun symbols associated with boats in Scandinavian rock art. The Danish rock-carvings have been dated to the Early Bronze Age and the first period of the Late Bronze Age and so tie in with our dating evidence for the Caergwrle Bowl. This frequent association of sun symbols with boats favours an interpretation of the bowl as a boat model. ... The oval form of the bowl is its most boatlike feature. We know of no other Bronze Age pottery to parallel this. The closest parallel is the Broighter Boat, a gold boat model found at Broighter, Co. Derry, Ireland}}</ref> The Caergwrle bowl has also been related to the earlier [[Nebra sky disc]] from Germany, which is thought to depict a solar boat.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/80363367|title=Time is power. Who makes time?: 13th Archaeological Conference of Central Germany|chapter=The Nebra Sky Disc – astronomy and time determination as a source of power|last=Meller|first=Harald|date=2021|publisher=Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale).|isbn=978-3-948618-22-3 |quote=The celestial ship, which transports or is associated with the sun, finds its earliest known representation in Central Europe on the Nebra sky disc, before appearing sporadically in Northern Europe from around 1600 BC and then being attested in numerous examples in Northern and Central Europe until the late Bronze Age. This is particularly impressively illustrated by the more than one hundred golden boats from Nors, in the region of Nordjylland (Denmark), on some of which the golden solar disc is found in the form of concentric circles. The ship from Caergwrle, Flintshire County (Wales), already discovered in 1823, also bears concentric circles below the railing, which can be interpreted as shields or solar symbols. (Translated from German)}}</ref> The [[Mold gold cape|gold cape from Mold]], which dates from the same period as the Nebra sky disc, was found near to Caergwrle.<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF2yU2DLebw |title=The World of the Nebra Sky Disc: The Mold Cape |date=2022 |last=Meller |first=Harald |website=Halle State Museum of Prehistory}}</ref> [[Gold lunulae]] from the Early Bronze Age [[Bell Beaker culture#Solar symbolism|Bell Beaker culture]], including examples from Wales, have also been interpreted as representations of solar boats.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/11627053|title='Here comes the sun....: solar symbolism in Early Bronze Age Ireland'|date=Spring 2015|journal=Archaeology Ireland |volume=29|issue=1|pages=26–33|last1=Cahill|first1=Mary}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://museum.wales/collections/online/object/2bc09ed5-4e20-31f9-a110-0e2a2924a343/Early-Bronze-Age-gold-lunula/ |title=Early Bronze Age gold lunula |website=National Museum Wales}}</ref> The zig-zag 'waves' on the Caegwrle bowl further resemble decorations on some [[Bell Beaker culture#Sardinia|Bell Beaker bowls]].
Depictions of oculi on boats are also known from ancient Greece.<ref name=":0" /> In [[Ancient Greek literature|Ancient Greek poetry]] and [[Ancient Greek art|art]] the 'Sun's vessel' is often depicted as a gold bowl, cup or cauldron that sails across the sea.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXrJA_5LKlYC |title=Indo-European Poetry and Myth |date=2007 |last=West |first=M.L. |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199280759 |pages=208–209}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/herakles-and-the-sea/ |title=Hēraklēs sails across the sea in the golden cup-boat of the sun-god Helios |website=Harvard.edu |date=2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4114246 |journal=Mnemosyne |volume=74 |issue=5 |date=2021 |title=Early Identifications of Apollo with the Physical Sun in Ancient Greece Tradition and Interpretation |last=Bilic |first=Tomislav |pages=709–736 |quote=An early identification of Apollo with the sun appears in a specific iconographic representation known through only two examples on Attic vases. First, on a neck-amphora of the Ready Painter dated to the third quarter of the 6th century, Apollo with a cithara is shown in a [[Sacrificial tripod|tripod]] traveling on the sea, indicated by two dolphins. Another almost identical representation is depicted on a hydria of the Berlin Painter, dated to ca. 480. Here the sea is indicated with fish and an octopus, as well as two dolphins jumping over waves; the tripod is winged, and laureate Apollo carries a bow and quiver on his back and holds a lyre and plectrum. This seems like an interpretation of the sun’s voyage in his golden cup, known to the Greeks as early as the second half of the 7th century, adapted to the iconography of Apollo. The artists who decorated these vases therefore seem to have identified Apollo with Helios}}</ref> Both Early Bronze Age [[Rillaton Barrow|gold cups]] and Late Bronze Age [[Battersea Cauldron|cauldrons]] from Britain and Ireland have been connected archaeologically and culturally to similar artefacts from Greece.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25508908 |journal=The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |volume=116 |date=1986 |title=Bronze Age Class A Cauldrons: Typology, Origins and Chronology |last=Gerloff |first=Sabine |pages=84–115}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.academia.edu/8068486/Bronze_Age_Feasting_Equipment_A_contextual_discussion_of_the_Salle_and_East_Anglian_cauldrons_and_flesh_hooks |title=Bronze Age Feasting Equipment: A contextual discussion of the Salle and East Anglian cauldrons and flesh-hooks |date=2014 |publisher=Red Dagger Press, Cambridge |last=Barrowclough |first=David |pages=1-17}}</ref> Bronze Age gold bowls from [[Eberswalde]] in Germany and from the [[Nordic Bronze Age]] also bear circular solar symbols. The symbols on the Eberswalde bowls represent calendrical information,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artsandculture.google.com/story/DAVRgpAwHmLsLw?hl=en|title=Life and Belief During the Bronze Age" Neues Museum, Berlin|access-date=13 March 2022 |quote=Gold vessels in the Eberswalde hoard bear sun and circular symbols like those on the Berlin gold hat. Some of these contain calendrical information as well.}}</ref> and are identical to those found on the [[Berlin Gold Hat]], which are thought to represent the [[Metonic cycle]] of a [[lunisolar calendar]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/golden-ceremonial-hat-berlin-gold-hat-artist-unknown/hAGC3knXgLdPZg?hl=en |title=Golden Ceremonial Hat ("Berlin Gold Hat") |website=Neues Museum Berlin}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Menghin|first=Wilfried|title=Zahlensymbolik und digitales Rechnersystem in der Ornamentik des Berliner Goldhutes|date=2008|journal=Acta Praehistorica et Archaeologica|volume=40|url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/apa/issue/view/5045|doi=10.11588/apa.2008.0.71505|pages=157–169}}</ref>
== Discovery and restoration ==
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