Book of Mormon Breastplates and Jewelry

Hopewell  (Nephite) Breastplate/Head Plate Artifacts and Jewelry

Today’s anthropologist have found copper breast Plates and head plates metal jewelry and knifes. Pictured below are Hopewell Indian breastplates and dig that found 92 copper and Iron breastplates found still positioned on top of skeletons.

“Discovered with a Skeleton, near Fall River, Massachusetts, in the year 1831. With this skeleton were found a corroded plate of brass, supposed to have constituted a breastplate.”
(Squier 1849)

Breast plate with pearl necklace

Hopewell Head plate artifact:

In this dig 92 copper and iron breast plates with skeletons were found as shown in the picture.

Hopewell gold, silver, copper, and meteoric iron artifacts have been verified by modern day archeologist. Listed below are pictures of confirmed Hopewell artifacts and accounts of early settlers.

“Ornate plates or sheets of copper (Figure 7), as well as effigies, headdresses (Figure 8), bracelets, and rings were found in the mound but not at the other selected sites. Figure 9 provides an example of one of the ornaments from the copper deposit in Mound 25. Even within the category of copper cutouts or sheets, great variety was present in the specific shapes and forms. Animals such as birds or fish were represented, as were geometric or other more abstract forms, such as swastikas. However, types such as celts, beads, bear teeth of copper, breastplates, and buttons were common to other sites. Moorehead (1922:118) lists a copper awl as coming from Mound 25, but this awl is not listed in Greber and Ruhl (1989) or Case and Carr (2008:Appendices 6.1A, 6.2)”

(In reference to mound ruins)

“Besides, had the people who raised these works, been in possession of, and used ever so many tools, manufactured from iron, by lying either on or under the earth, during all that long period which has intervened between their authors and us, they would have long since oxydized by “rusting,” and left but faint traces of their existence behind them.”
(Atwater 1833 pg. 140)

(In reference to Hopewell ruins)

“Gold and silver ornaments have been found in many of the tumuli (mounds) in Ohio. Silver very well plated, has been found in several of the mounds : copper in many: pipe bowls of copper, hammered, and not welded together, but lapped over, have been found in them.”
(Haywood 1823 pg. 343)

Hopewell silver earspools artifacts

Hopewell copper bracelet