Brloh depot

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The Brloh depot (also known as the Brloh hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Brloh , a district of Louny in Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis .

Find history

The depot was discovered before 1945, the exact circumstances of the find are unknown.

composition

The depot consists of two bronze objects that Václav Moucha addresses as a massive oval ring and a possible eyelet neck ring . Tilmann Vachta , on the other hand, considers them both to be massive oval rings. The first ring is broken into three pieces, of the second only a deformed fragment remains.

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. 269.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 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. 201 ( online ).