Gold hat

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Gold hats (or golden hats) (German: Goldhüte, singular: Goldhut) are a very specific and rare type of archaeological artefact from Bronze Age Europe. So far, four such objects are known and formally classified as "cone-shaped gold hats of the Schifferstadt type". The objects are made of thin sheet gold and were attached externally to long conical and brimmed headdresses which were probably made of some organic material and served to stabilise the external gold leaf. The following conical gold hats are known: Avanton Gold Cone, incomplete, found at Avanton near Poitiers in 1844, c. 1400 BC. Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, found in 1835 at Schifferstadt near Speyer, c. 1400–1300 BC. Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch, found near Ezelsdorf near Nuremberg in 1953, c. 1000–900 BC; the tallest known specimen at roughly 90 cm (35 in). Berlin Gold Hat, found probably in Swabia or Switzerland, acquired by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin, in 1996, c. 1000–800 BC. The archaeological contexts...

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