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For the local workmen, it must have seemed as if the old Welsh legends were true.
對當地工人來說，那一天一定像是看到古老的威爾士傳說在眼前變成現實一樣。
They'd been sent to quarry stone in a field known as Bryn-yr-Ellyllon, which translates as the Fairies' or the Goblins' Hill.
他們被派到一個叫布林伊爾埃伊林的地方去開釆石頭，這個地名意為仙女山或精靈山。
Sightings of a ghostly boy, clad in gold, a glittering apparition in the moonlight, had been reported frequently enough for travellers to avoid the hill after dark.
據稱，這里常常看到一個鬼魅般的男孩，披著金斗篷，在月光下發出幽光，如同幻影。這樣的傳聞流傳甚廣，過路人在天黑后便不再靠近這個山丘。
As the workmen dug into a large mound, they uncovered a stone-lined grave.
而當時，工人們在挖一個大土堆時掘出了一座用石頭堆砲的墳墓。
In it were hundreds of amber beads, several bronze fragments, and the remains of a skeleton.
里面有數百顆瑪瑙、一些青銅碎片和一具尸骨殘骸。
And wrapped around the skeleton was a mysterious crushed object-a large and finely decorated broken sheet of pure gold.
殘骸上還裹著一件已被壓碎的神秘物品-大片殘破的裝飾精美的純黃金。
"It is-in the true sense of the word-'unique', because there is no other object like it."
“它真正詮釋了獨一無二的真正含義,因為再無出其右者。”
"When you look at this object, in one way you react by amazement about how beautiful and intriguing it is.
“當你看到這件物品,在某種程度上你被它美麗及有趣之處震驚。
And then you also react to it in terms of wondering about who it was made for, what does it mean that that kind of unique special objects were created."
然后你也會好奇它是出自誰之手,及這件獨特特殊物品的存在意義。”
A history of the world.
世界歷史，
In a hundred objects.
百件藏品，
Finely worked gold object from North Wales over 3,500 years old.
具有3500年歷史,在威爾士北部發現的工藝精美的金件。
