Bečov depot

The Bečov depot (also known as the Bečov hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Bečov in Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the National Museum in Prague .

Find history

The deposit was discovered before 1900, the exact circumstances of the find are unknown.

composition

The depot consists of two bronze arm spirals and a ridge hatchet . The bands from which the arm spirals were made have a lenticular cross-section with a length of 6 mm and a width of 3 mm. The two spirals are slightly faceted . Both of them have recently broken off one end. On both sides of the edge ridge ax there are clear traces of machining from a hammer.

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , pp. 100-101 ( 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. 200 ( online ).