Four-pointed solar disc embossed on a gold sheet

Embossed gold sheet, four-pointed solar disc. Eastern Hallstatt culture. (800-500 B.C.) In the period between 800-500 B.C., the area between Eastern France and the Middle Danube Basin was populated by peoples of the so-called Hallstatt culture. The name comes from a cemetery found at the Austrian village of Hallstatt. In the Transdanubian region, the elites of the people belonging to the Eastern branch of the Hallstatt culture lived in large, fortified settlements that flourished as centres of iron and bronze metallurgy.