Hradce depot

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

Find history

The depot was discovered while leveling the ground for wood chopping at a depth of 0.3 m. There are contradicting information about the exact location. In the original find report a hill west of Hradce is given. Tilmann Vachta locates the place further south, namely west of Vrábče at an elevation called Třebiště .

composition

The depot consists of three largely identical marginal ridge axes . Two of these were transferred to the Budweiser Museum in 1889, the third initially remained in private ownership and finally also entered the museum in 1929. The axes have a widened cutting edge with a wide facet and a cut-out neck. The neck of an ax 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. 281.
  • 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 , p. 210 ( online ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '50.6 "  N , 14 ° 21' 42.9"  E