Bennewitz depot

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The Bennewitz depot is one of the most important finds from the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture . It dates between 2000 and 1700 BC. The depot was found in a clay pot in 1879 while plowing a field in Bennewitz , today part of the municipality of Kabelsketal ( Saalekreis , Saxony-Anhalt ). The pot is no longer preserved. The depot contains 297 marginal ridge axes of the same design. Taken together, the finds weigh around 70 kg. Apparently the axes were never used.

Today the depot is spread over several collections. 200 axes ended up in the Museum of Prehistory in Berlin , 36 in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale) and 14 in the State Museum of Prehistory in Dresden . Individual axes can also be found in the cultural history museum in Magdeburg , in the regional history collections of Lutherstadt Eisleben , in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum in Braunschweig , in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg and in the Archaeological Museum in Krakow .

The immediate vicinity of the site is extremely rich in finds from the Aunjetitz culture. To the west of Dieskau , three other important deposits ( I , II and III ) were discovered. There were also several burial mounds (largely removed in the 19th century) , including the Bornhöck near Raßnitz , the Dieskau burial mound and the Hallberg between Benndorf and Osmünde .

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.
  • F. Innerhofer: Ring and Beil - ingot depots from the Early Bronze Age. In: H. Meller (Ed.): The forged sky. The wide world in the heart of Europe 3600 years ago. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition. Halle (Saale) 2004, p. 98 ff.
  • 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.
  • Helmut Otto: The chemical composition of some hoard finds from the Halle area. In: Annual publication for Central German prehistory. Volume 34, 1950, pp. 90-100.
  • Bernd Zich: (1996): Studies on the regional and chronological structure of the northern Aunjetitz culture. Pre. Research 20, 434 [E221]. Berlin, New York 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An early Bronze Age hoard from Gröbers ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-digital.de
  2. ↑ Martin Jahn: A cultural center near Halle / Saale during the early Bronze Age. P. 84.