Depot I from Dieskau

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Four of the five preserved items from the Dieskau gold hoard (the bracelet on the lower left is duplicated)

The Depot I Dieskau (also hoard of Dieskau I or gold hoard of Dieskau ) is probably a hoard of Early Bronze Age Unetice culture of Dieskau , a district of the community Kabelsketal in Saalekreis ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It dates between 2000 and 1700 BC. BC Possibly it was also grave goods .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1874. There are contradicting information about the exact location, but most likely the parcel “the acid hole” on the Dieskau manor . The finds were initially sold in the art trade . Some of them were acquired by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin at the end of the 19th century . Since 1945 they have been looted in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow . In the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle (Saale) , true-to-original copies of the preserved objects are on display. They were shown from September 21, 2018 to January 6, 2019 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.

As early as 1980, the possibility was considered that it could not be a depot but an ensemble of grave goods. Bertold Schmidt and Waldemar Nitzschke brought the objects into connection with the Dieskau burial mound, which they examined in an emergency excavation . However, due to an incorrect localization of the site, this hypothesis now seems unlikely. According to Harald Meller and Torsten Schunke, it could also be grave goods from the Bornhöck grave mound near Raßnitz , which was destroyed in the 19th century and which was within sight of the supposed place where the gold objects were found.

The area around Dieskau is extremely rich in finds from the Aunjetitz culture. In 1904 and 1937, two other important hoard finds ( Depot II and Depot III ) with objects made of bronze and amber were discovered in other parts of the village . In addition to those mentioned above, there are also other burial mounds (which were largely removed in the 19th century), including the Hallberg between Benndorf and Osmünde .

composition

Originally, the depot probably consisted of 13 items. Of these, only five made it to the Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Berlin. The remainder was probably sold elsewhere or melted down by the middlemen. Of the items preserved, four are made of gold : a hatchet blade , two bracelets and a bangle ; joins a Ösenhalsring of electron . No more detailed information is available on the other eight items. According to a file entry, it could have been gold wire, among other things. The objects obtained have a total weight of 635.5 g; it is the largest known gold hoard of the Central German Early Bronze Age.

literature

  • Wilhelm Albert von Brunn : The hoard finds of the early Bronze Age from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia (= writings of the Section for Prehistory and Early History / German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Volume 7/1). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
  • Juliane Filipp, Martin Freudenreich: Dieskau Revisited I. Research on the "life story" of the gold hoard of Dieskau and on another burial mound with gold additions near Osmünde in today's Saalekreis, Saxony-Anhalt. In: Harald Meller et al. (Ed.): Metals of Power - Early Gold and Silver. 6th Central German Archaeological Day from October 17 to 19, 2013 in Halle (Saale) (= conferences of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 11 / II). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt Halle 2014, ISBN 978-3-944507-13-2 , pp. 743–752 ( online ).
  • Martin Jahn : A cultural center near Halle / Saale during the early Bronze Age. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 34, 1950, pp. 81-89.
  • Harald Meller : Princes, gold weapons and armies. Thoughts on the gold discovery in Dieskau and its possible origins from the Early Bronze Age large grave mound Bornhöck near Dieskau, Saalekreis. In: Harald Meller, François Bertemes (ed.): The departure to new horizons. New perspectives on the European Early Bronze Age. Final conference of the research group FOR550 from November 26th to 29th 2010 in Halle (Saale) (= conference of the State Museum for Prehistory Halle. Volume 19). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale) 2020, ISBN 978-3-948618-03-2 , pp. 101–112.
  • Harald Meller (eds.), Regine Maraszek, Juraj Lipták: Bronzerausch. Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the State Museum of Prehistory, Volume 4). State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-939414-58-2 , pp. 188–189.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bertold Schmidt, Waldemar Nitzschke: An early Bronze Age "prince hill" near Dieskau in the Saalekreis. Preliminary report. In: excavations and finds. Volume 25, 1980, pp. 179-183.
  2. ↑ Harald Meller, Torsten Schunke: The rediscovery of Bornhöck - a new early Bronze Age "prince grave hill" near Raßnitz, Saalekreis. First preliminary report. In: Harald Meller et al. (Ed.): Poor and rich - on the distribution of resources in prehistoric societies. 8th Central German Archaeological Day from October 22nd to 24th, 2015 in Halle (Saale) (= conferences of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume 14 / I). State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt Halle 2016, ISBN 978-3-944507-45-3 , p. 460 ( online ).