Ermintruder
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This appears to be a comparatively-unknown but fascinating story. I refer to the wonderful archaeological discovery in Europe of large (c 800mm tall) ceremonial pointed hats, beautifully made from beaten gold foil sheeting, apparently for the proto-priests, wizards and witches of our pre-bronze age past.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat
Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch
Gaze in wistful wonder at the stunning workmanship, and also think back to a cold January night, thousands of years ago, when YOUR ancestor watched or wore this hat, glinting in the moonlight. Life then was short and brutal, perhaps: but, shall we ever know what truly went on within the shadow of The Hat??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_hat
Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch
Golden hats
(or Gold hats) (German: Goldhüte, singular: Goldhut) are a very specific and rare type of archaeological artifact from Bronze Age 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 as of 2012:
- Golden Hat of Schifferstadt, found in 1835 at Schifferstadt near Speyer, circa 1400–1300 BC.
- Avanton Gold Cone, incomplete, found at Avanton near Poitiers in 1844, circa1000–900 BC.
- Golden Cone of Ezelsdorf-Buch, found near Ezelsdorf near Nuremberg in 1953,circa 1000–900 BC; the tallest known specimen at c. 90 cm.
- Berlin Gold Hat, found probably in Swabia or Switzerland, circa 1000–800 BC; acquired by the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Berlin, in 1996.
Gaze in wistful wonder at the stunning workmanship, and also think back to a cold January night, thousands of years ago, when YOUR ancestor watched or wore this hat, glinting in the moonlight. Life then was short and brutal, perhaps: but, shall we ever know what truly went on within the shadow of The Hat??
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