Dětenice depot

The Dětenice Depot (also known as the Dětenice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Dětenice in Královéhradecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. Most of the depot is now in the Libáň Museum .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1943, east of Dětenice, near the municipal boundary, by workers when a pond was being renewed.

composition

The depot consisted of 14 bronze objects that were found together with the fragments of two ceramic vessels and an animal skull. One of the vessels comes from the Middle Ages and therefore has no relation to the depot. The other is a prehistoric two-handled amphora of dark brown color. Its height was (reconstructed) 210 mm. The bronze objects are five wire arm spirals, two cylindrical arm spirals, a lance tip and six arm rings . A wire arm spiral came into private ownership, three arm rings are missing, the rest of the depot is in the Libáň 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. 277.
• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 104 ( 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. 206 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 55.5 ″  N , 15 ° 11 ′ 11.5 ″  E