Čáslav's Depot I

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The Čáslav Depot I (also Hortfund I from Čáslav ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Čáslav in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The deposit is now in the Čáslav Museum.

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1890 during an excavation in the west of Čáslav on the hilltop settlement of Hrádek. Today there is a park on the site. The depot was located 2.3 m deep in a small pit on the rock floor.

A second depot was found in Čáslav before 1908, but it dates from the late Bronze Age . Furthermore, two individual finds of marginal ridge axes of the Aunjetitz culture are known from Čáslav and its surroundings .

composition

The depot consists of five rings made of double bronze wire . The diameter of the rings is between 46 mm and 75 mm, the thickness of the wires between 1.4 mm and 2.4 mm.

literature

  • Kliment Čermák : Výzkumy na Hrádku u Čáslavy. In: Jubilejní sborník památek čáslavských. Nákladem “Včely čáslavské”, Čáslav 1904, pp. 44–46, plate XI ( online ).
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 102 ( 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. 201 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 39.5 "  N , 15 ° 23 ′ 3.3"  E