High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Golden hats (or Gold hats) are a very specific and rare type of archaeological artefact from Bronze Age Central Europe. So far, four such objects ("cone- shaped gold hats of the Schifferstadt type") are known. 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 Golden Hats are known at present: Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, found in 1835 at Schifferstadt near Speyer, circa 1,400-1,300 BC; Avanton Gold Cone, incomplete, found at Avanton near Poitiers in 1844, circa 1,000-900 BC; Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch, found near Ezelsdorf near Nuremberg in 1953, circa 1,000-900 BC; the tallest known specimen at circa 90 cm, Berlin Gold Hat, found probably in Swabia or Switzerland, circa 1,000-800 BC; acquired by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin, in 1996.
