Tools of a metal craftsman - pair of punches

In the course of the Bronze Age metallurgical techniques and skills were developed which can hardly be matched today. The cone of the Berlin Hat, for instance, is beaten paper-thin from a single piece of gold and carefully shaped with a fine tool. Metalworkers in the Late Bronze Age possessed such fine, sophisticated tools. Among the contents of a hoard found near Murnau in Upper Bavaria was a small stake anvil and especially circular ribbed male (negative) and female (positive) punches just like the ones used for the circular patterns on the Gold Hat.