Eyelet collar

The eyelet collar is an archaeological find from the Bronze Age . It is cast from bronze , oval to round in shape with a thicker middle part and thin ends that are bent into an eyelet and can be hooked into one another. The average thickness can vary, but is usually differentiated as "normal" or "massive". This seems to represent a relative standardization and thus possibly an attempt at a uniform measure of weight, which is why the rings are also viewed as a kind of currency. In contrast to the eyelet neck rings, torques , which were mainly worn as jewelry and symbols of rank, do not have eyelets at the ends.

The majority of the rings found come from depot finds in the entire range of Bronze Age cultures. These depots are often interpreted as dealer depots, as they sometimes contain more than 100 copies and the dumping was usually reversible, i.e. in such a way that the objects could be dug up again. This differentiates them from irreversible ritual dumping. They were seldom given to the grave, where occasionally the in-situ location in the neck area of ​​the buried person showed that the rings were also worn as jewelry.

literature

• Andreas Tillmann: An early Bronze Age eyelet collar depot . In: The Archaeological Year in Bavaria 1989 . Stuttgart 1990. pp. 65-66.
• Ernst Lauermann, Ernst Pernicka : The early Bronze Age bar deposit finds from Kilb, VB Melk and Obermarkersdorf VB Hollabrunn Lower Austria . In: Contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe (74), Langenweissbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-941171-94-7 , pp. 147-164

Web links

• Eyelet rings of the Aunjetitz culture from Dieskau and Egeln , State Museum for Prehistory, Halle