Bronze deposit from Winterlingen
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The bronze deposit from Winterlingen , a municipality in the Zollernalb district in Baden-Württemberg , was recovered near Winterlingen in 1609. It comes from the late Urnfield Period (9th century BC) and is one of the earliest, almost completely preserved archaeological finds in Germany.
The bronze sickle knife, the three bronze hatchets and five bronze sickles to the then Balingen upper vogt Friedrich von Thergenau in the same year at the Art Chamber of Johann Jakob Guth of Sulz-Durchhausen passed (1543-1616) have. There is no further information about the find, so that neither the exact location, the circumstances of the find nor the exact original composition are known.
It is a chance find that was not made during regular excavations. There are doubts about the complete tradition. The Hort von Winterlingen has a very typical composition with rag axes, sickles and the sickle or vine knife as a rarity for the late Urnfield period. All objects show clear signs of use and had been in use for some time at the time they were put down.
It is likely that it was found in custody or hiding, which the previous owners wanted to recover at a later date, but could no longer do so for unknown reasons.
The first mention of the find can be found in the inventory of the Guth von Sulz collection, which was created around 1624 and was included in the Württemberg art chamber in 1653 .
Today the bronze deposit is in the Württemberg State Museum .