Provenance and Find History
The Ezelsdorf-Buch Cone was discovered accidentally during the removal of tree-stumps in 1953. Unfortunately, it was not recognised as an archaeological find immediately, so that its top was torn and broken by digging tools, probably weakening or destroying the structure of the whole object. It is also possible that the object had been damaged previously or that it had fully or partially collapsed during burial. It was probably originally buried in an upright position, with its top relatively near ground level, as were its Berlin and Schifferstadt counterparts. After recovery, the cone was mutilated and torn into small scraps of sheet gold. Although it could be mostly reconstructed at an early stage, it was only in the 1990s that the find was understood as belonging to the group of 'golden hats'.
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