Depot I from Lukavec

The Depot I Lukavec (also hoard I Lukavec ) is a hoard of Early Bronze Age Unetice culture of Lukavec u Lovosic in kraj Ústecký , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The objects still preserved in the depot are now in the Litoměřice Museum and are privately owned.

Find history

The depot was discovered in August 1914 while plowing southwest of Lukavec. Another depot was found about 400 m away in the 19th century , but it dates back to the late Bronze Age.

composition

The depot was placed in a 45 cm high ceramic vessel that was broken by the plow. In the vessel there were 72 bronze eyelet neck rings or ring bars , some of which were completely preserved, some only in fragments. Most of the rings initially came into private hands. Today there are 62 copies in the Litoměřice Museum. The total weight of these pieces is 11.6 kg. Three other copies are still in private hands, the remaining seven have been lost. Only one piece of pottery has survived, which is in the Litoměřice Museum.

literature

• Martin Bartelheim : Studies on the Bohemian Aunjetitzer culture. Chronological and chorological investigations (= university research on prehistoric archeology. Vol. 46). Habelt, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7749-2867-3 (also: Berlin, Freie Universität, dissertation, 1998), p. 272.
• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , pp. 125–126 ( 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. 220 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 14 ° 4 ′ 45 ″  E