It is a Bronze Age artefact made of thin sheet gold and served as the external decoration of a head-dress, probably of an organic material, with a brim and a chin-strap.

It is one of a group of four similar artifacts known as the Golden hats, all cone-shaped Bronze Age head-dresses made of sheet gold.

The hat, like its counterparts, is assumed to have served as a religious insignia for the deities or priests of a sun-cult common in Bronze Age Europe.

It is subdivided into horizontal ornamental bands, applied in the repoussé technique, with a blunt, undecorated tip.

Striking are two bands with eye-like motifs, resembling similar symbols on the hats of Ezelsdorf and Berlin.

The clay slab, which crumbled during its recovery and is now entirely lost, sat on a one-inch layer of sand, placed in a rectangular pit.

In the course of its further manufacture, the hat was embellished with rows of radial ornamental bands, chased into the metal.

To make this possible, it was filled with a putty or pitch based on tree resin and wax, traces of which have survived.