The Mysterious Golden Hats of the ‘Ancient Wizards’ – Ancient Architects

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some ancient relics and monuments get
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more airtime than others due to the vast
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amount of work carried out at location
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such as the Giza pyramids in Egypt
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Stonehenge in England T Ottawa Khan in
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Mexico and Machu Picchu in Peru a number
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of important discoveries do not get the
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mainstream attention they deserve and
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this leads us to the mysterious golden
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hats of Europe described as four
Golden Hats of Europe
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cone-shaped golden hats from the Bronze
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Age each of the four hats was actually
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discovered in a different location three
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in Germany and one in France although
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separated by space the artifacts are all
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thought to originate from a similar time
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the Bronze Age sometime between 1400 and
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800 BC they all share a similar design
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mimicking the look of a wizard's hats
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but made with incredibly thin sheets of
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pure gold and designed with the most
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intricate patterns and symbols most
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researchers believe that the patterns on
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the hats are related to astronomy and
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agriculture recording the changes in the
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moon the seasons the Stars and the Sun
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the general consensus is that they were
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hats worn by important individuals
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leaders of bronze age communities
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possibly giving the wearer divine status
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we are told there are only four which
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makes them incredibly rare discoveries
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and they were found over the course of
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160 years although from afar they all
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look very similar and are made in a very
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similar way with sheets of thin gold
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their designs are all somewhat unique
The Four Golden Hats
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the golden hatter ship Erstad was
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discovered by a farmer in chiefest at
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germany in 1835 it is just short of 30
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centimetres tall the smallest of the
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four hats
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and is divided into bands that run the
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full length of the artifacts decorated
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with disks circles and ellipses dated
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between 1400 and 1300 BC the next to be
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discovered was the of Anton Gould cone
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the only one found in France and was
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discovered just nine years later this is
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thought to be later in origin
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one thousand and nine hundred BC and
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although missing its brim evidence
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suggests that it did have one it is
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taller than the Golden Hat of shiver
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stats at fifty five centimeters tall but
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it too displays a banded design with
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circles and disks the third to be found
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was the golden cone of ezel's Dorf
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bouche found in germany in 1953 this is
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the tallest of the four examples being
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88 centimeters and heights and has a
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very similar design to the Schiffer
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starts hats experts believe it is the
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same age as the one found in France last
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but not least is the Berlin gold hats
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named after the German city because it
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was bought by the museum again it is
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believed to be a similar age to the
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previous one dating to 1000 and 800 BC
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and was found in southern Germany
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it stands 75 centimetres tall these
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mysterious relics are still not
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understood and experts have only been
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able to speculate as to their importance
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it's amazing that they were found in
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different geographical locations yeah
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clearly share a number of
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characteristics this must imply the one
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culture is behind them some researchers
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have said they are part of suits of
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armour but to me this doesn't work
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others say that the symbols are related
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to fertility whilst others say we are
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looking at them upside down and in
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actual fact they are ceremonial vases
The Wizards
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others say they were placed on wooden
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totems not worn by cultural leaders but
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then some believed they did belong to
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ancient wizards
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no not wizards my Gandalf the gray or
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Dumbledore but wise old men of ancient
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cultures with knowledge and wisdom the
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reason for the wizard interpretation is
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that a lot of work has been done to
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compare the symbolism with astronomy and
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astrology and many now believe the hats
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were used to track stars and the Sun
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which helped the Bronze Age communities
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to record key agricultural dates for
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planting and harvesting of crops if true
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the wearers of the hats would no doubt
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be leaders and elders of the specific
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ancient communities these people would
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have held the key sacred knowledge and
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they therefore were able to predict
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climatic conditions and seasons this
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could have been seen as a divine power
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according to Wilfred Mangan director a
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Berlin Museum the Sun and Moon symbols
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are a match for
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metonic cycle that some say that
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stonehenge also marked this cycle was
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used by the Babylonians ancient Chinese
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and Greeks and its importance can be
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read widely across the internet if a
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true hypothesis of the hats it shows
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that the Bronze Age Europeans were far
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more advanced than we give them credit
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for but why they recorded the
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information on golden hats is unclear
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but what most people don't know or at
Comerford Crown
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least do not link together is that more
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golden hats have been discovered and
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some are much further afield in Ireland
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the Comerford crown is another Late
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Bronze Age golden hats and was actually
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the first to be discovered in a peat bog
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at been ill in County Tipperary back in
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1692 although smaller than its German
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counterparts the decoration and style is
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very similar decorated in bands with
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circular motifs it was purchased by mr.
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Joseph Comerford who took it to France
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and soon after the object went missing
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at a similar time a second golden hats
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came out of the bog of Cullen also in
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County Tipperary which is now known as
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the golden bog due to the vast amounts
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of golden artifacts unearthed from the
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bog experts believe that this was an
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ancient ritual sides
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sadly back in 1744 the Hat was purchased
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by a jeweler and it was melted down to
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produce six ounces of gold a third
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golden hats which is only recorded as
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being shaped like a shell was found in
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County Limerick and kill Pekin in 1921
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but this too was melted down for gold
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bullion the Comerford crown which
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thankfully was recorded in this
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fantastic picture is strikingly similar
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to three more golden hats that were
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found in the northwest of the iberian
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peninsula again these are smaller than
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the German hats were also made with thin
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sheets of gold and decorated in the same
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way with circles and bands back to
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Germany in eight more smaller golden
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hats were also discovered the date to
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the late bronze age again all relatively
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similar in appearance to everything else
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we've seen so far all of these examples
Late Bronze Age
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are thought to be hats as their
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diameters are all suitable to fit the
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average size of a human head it is also
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believed they had a now decomposed
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lining to ensure comfort for the wearer
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the similar
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it is between the objects from Germany
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all the way to Island are incredibly
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intriguing does it indicate a
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europe-wide nobility or a band of wise
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priest-kings scattered and shared
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knowledge throughout Europe are they
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crowns or objects that simply had a
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practical purpose in Wales Britain back
The Golden Cape
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in 1833 the golden cape of mold was also
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discovered and it dated back to the
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Bronze Age it was also made of thin
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sheets of solid gold and decorated in a
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similar style to the house it was
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discovered in a Bronze Age burial mound
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called fairies or goblins Hill placed
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onto the body of a person who was
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interred into a rough kissed within the
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burial mound
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some say that the golden cape is linked
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to the gold hats and that they are
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actually part of a ceremonial dress of
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these ancient priests Kings from the
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Bronze Age back in 2018 the channel
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mystery history presented a hypothesis
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that the golden hats were actually
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relics of an advanced lost civilization
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that were reused by later cultures they
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do seem to show advanced astronomical
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knowledge and the craftsmanship is
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clearly incredibly detailed and this
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idea should certainly be looked into
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further to preserve the shape of the
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hats for such a large amount of time it
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is believed that each one was filled
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with fine soil or ashes and was buried
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upright to keep its shape I don't know
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if anybody has yet made the link but the
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motifs found on ancient Neolithic carved
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stones sometimes share similar imagery
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to what we see on the golden hats
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examples of such carvings are seen at
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noth a Newgrange in Ireland as well as
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the governess cave in Brittany France
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maybe the rock art actually gives us a
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code that tells us how the hats were
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used who knows for example the note
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curbstone 15 looks less like arts and
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more of a blueprint of how something
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works maybe they are just depicting
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astronomical phenomena but what if they
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are recording something more intricate
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something we don't often associate with
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our Neolithic ancestors
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if the hats and the rock art can be
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linked more definitely this main helpers
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to push the dates of the artifacts even
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further back and the fact that both the
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hats and Stonehenge both seem to be
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encoding the same astronomical knowledge
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may mean that these hats are actually
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Neolithic in origin objects of high
Conclusion
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importance I'm sure were passed out
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from generation to generation in ancient
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times and because the hats were
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carefully buried in the Late Bronze Age
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doesn't mean they were made in the same
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time period we do have a fantastic
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record of archaeological finds across
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the world but I do think that our
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understanding and interpretation of such
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finds is still lacking we can all look
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at the facts
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and learn about what has been discovered
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and we are all able to give our own
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interpretation and hopefully together we
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can get further to the truth of our
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ancestors as well as the images shown in
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this video there are many more photos on
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the internet that you can peruse at your
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leisure I'd love to hear your thoughts
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