Bronze port from Lebus Castle Hill

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At around 22 kilograms, the bronze port from Lebus Castle is the largest depot find in Brandenburg from the late Bronze Age . The more than 100 individual pieces consist of 103  axes , 2 rings, a sword fragment and the remnants of a casting process . The find was made in the course of construction work on the area of ​​about one square meter in August 2003 on the castle hill.

Ceramic shards indicate that parts of the hoard were stored in vessels. Half of the axes are so-called Lausitz nozzle axes . Other axes come from the Danube region and the Baltic States . Finds of such axes from the late Bronze Age are extremely rare. The origin could be derived from the metal alloys. The sword fragment, a full-grip sword, can be assigned to the types Auvernier , Hostomice or Stölln .

With this find it was possible to prove that the Lebus castle hill was between 900 and 800 BC. Was a central place with extensive trade relations.

Since 2007 the find from the 9th century BC. In the Archaeological State Museum Brandenburg in the Paulikloster in Brandenburg an der Havel . From September 21, 2018 to January 6, 2019, the find was in the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in the exhibition Moving Times. Archeology shown in Germany , which took place on the occasion of the European Cultural Heritage Year 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The bronze port of Lebus . In: The Private Lebuser Heimat-Lexikon
  2. ^ Bronzehort recovered from the Lebus Castle Hill . Press release from MWFK Brandenburg.
  3. ↑ 40 bronze axes restored from Lebus - treasure comes to the museum . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , April 6, 2005.
  4. ↑ Largest bronze treasure between the Elbe and the Vistula . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 3, 2003.
  5. ^ Archaeological finds from Brandenburg in a large exhibition in Berlin near Brandenburg.live

Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 37 ″  N , 14 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  E