Conical hats Date back to the Bronze Age in the Middle East and central Europe.

e. Four golden hats are known to exist from the Bronze Age in Central Europe, made of thin sheet gold attached to long conical and brimmed headdresses made of organic materials to stabilize the gold sheets. The four date between 1400-800 BCE found in France and Germany. The hats are associated with the pre-proto-Celtic Bronze Age Urnfield culture The cone shaped hat found at Schifferstadt in Germany are assumed to be connected with a number of comparable cap or crown-shaped gold leaf objets from Ireland (The Comerford Crown found in 1692) and the Atlantic Coast of Spain (Gold leaf crowns of Axtroki and Rianxo, which, unlike the Irish Crown, still survives today). It is assumed that the Golden Hats served as religious insignias for deities or priests of a sun cult which was widespread in europe. The proof of their use as head gear is because three of them have cap-like widening at the bottom of the cones and the openings are oval, not round, and are the size and shape that would fit a human skull. There is a figural depiction of an object resembling a conical hat on a stone slab of the Kings Grave at Kivik, Sweden, buried carefully. The hats have bands of ornaments surrounding them that appear to be systematic sequences in terms of numbers and types of ornaments per band. The theory is that this may represent a lunisolar calendar. Since the solar year was important to determining when solstices occurred, religiously important events, the astronomical information depicted on the hats was very valued by the Bronze Age society. The hats were either symbolic or actually used as calendars.