Slaný Depot III

The Custodian III of Slaný (also hoard III of Slaný ) is a hoard of Early Bronze Age Unetice culture of Slaný in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the Slaný Museum.

Find history

The depot was discovered east of Slaný on Slánská hora (Salt Mountain ) before 1900 . The exact circumstances of the find are unknown. The area was very densely populated in the Bronze Age, but older traces of settlement from the Neolithic and the Copper Age as well as younger ones from the Iron Age and the Middle Ages are proven.

There are three other depot finds ( I , II and IV ) and several individual finds from the Aunjetitz culture from the Salzberg .

composition

The depot consists of several bronze objects : five bar arm rings and a chain. The arm rings have three paw ends and two blunt ends. The chain has a length of 190 cm. It consists of a conical chain end and over 300 barrel-shaped pearls . Fragments of double pearls have also been preserved. The pearls have a length between 5 mm and 7 mm and a diameter between 4 mm and 5 mm. All items are badly corroded .

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , pp. 149–150 ( online ).
• Tilmann Vachta : Bronze Age hoards and their sites in Bohemia (= Berlin studies of the ancient world. Volume 33). Edition Topoi, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816751-2-2 , p. 242 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '52.8 "  N , 14 ° 5' 46"  E