Hořovičky depot
The Hořovičky Depot (also Hořovičky hoard find ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Hořovičky in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the National Museum in Prague .
Find history
The depot was discovered in August 1983 while digging a collecting basin for a silo pit. It was located in one of two adjacent pits at a depth of 2.5 m below today's surface. The bottom of the pit had a layer of ash. Some settlement finds from the younger section of the Aunjetitz culture come from the area around the depot.
composition
The deposit consists of 79 bronze objects that Václav Moucha as ring bars , Tilmann Vachta however, as Ösenhalsringe classified.
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. 270.
- Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 109 ( 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. 209-210 ( online ).