Dolní Chrášťany depot

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The Dolní Chrášťany Depot (also known as the Dolní Chrášťany hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Dolní Chrášťany , a district of Lhenice in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. The preserved part of the depot is now in the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1882 while plowing south of Dolní Chrášťany on the Fuchs-Bühel. The objects were close together at a depth of 0.4 m. A follow-up examination of the site did not reveal any further findings or findings .

composition

The depot originally consisted of five bronze bars . Two of them ended up in the private collection of Jan Nepomuk Woldřich and one in the museum in Budweis. The bars had a length between 27 cm and 28 cm and a diameter between 17.5 cm and 18.5 cm, their thickness in the middle was between 1.7 cm and 1.8 cm. Only the bar in the Budweiser Museum has survived. The outside is strongly curved, the inside is irregularly flat and rough. One end has recently broken off.

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. 280.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 105 ( 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 , pp. 206-207 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 34.2 "  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 39.4"  E