Češov depot

The Češov depot (also known as the Češov hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Češov in Královéhradecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. Today the depot is divided between the Jičín Regional Museum and the National Museum in Prague .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1883. The exact circumstances of the find are unknown, but it is said to have been found in a prehistoric settlement, in the vicinity of pits that contained ashes and ceramic shards.

composition

The depot consists of two solid bronze oval rings. The ring in Jičín has been completely preserved. One side shows clear signs of wear in the form of bowl-shaped recessed surfaces. At the ends it has small grooves. The casting seam is particularly evident on the inside . The ring was made in a two-shell mold , the halves of which had probably shifted slightly during casting.

Only a fragment of the ring in Prague has survived, which has no decorations. Here, too, it can be seen that the two mold halves had shifted slightly against each other. A chemical analysis showed that the ring consists of 82.56% copper , 16.02% antimony and small amounts of iron and lead .

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 103 ( 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. 203 ( online ).