Bronze Age Priest with a Gold Hat (Late Bronze Age 1200-900 BC)

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. There are Gold Hats known in the area of Germany, France and Switzerland.