Jaroslavice depot

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The Jaroslavice Depot (also known as the Jaroslavice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Jaroslavice , a district of Hluboká nad Vltavou in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The preserved items in the depot are now divided between the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis and the Museum in Týn nad Vltavou .

Find history

The depot was discovered in November 1901 south of Jaroslavice when a pasture was being converted into a field. Numerous other individual finds were also found in the vicinity of this depot. There were several small burial mounds with diameters between 2.5 m and 3.0 m and a height of about 0.7 m at the site of the find . The depot is said to have been found in the middle hill.

composition

The depot originally consisted of 25 bronze eyelet neck rings . Of these, eleven are still preserved today (ten in Budweis, one in Týn nad Vltavou). They are approximately circular. The smallest has a length of 153 mm and a width of 128 mm, the largest a length of 168 mm and a width of 155 mm. The weight is between 162 g and 228 g. The surfaces of the rings are finely faceted .

The individual finds from the area of the depot is a molded belt buckle, a ball head pin, two massive rings, a Absatzbeil , a brace bars and a ring bullion fragment (all bronze) and a golden wire ring and ceramic shards. A massive ring and the gold ring are lost, the remaining items are now in Budweis.

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 , pp. 113-114 ( 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. 212 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 ′ 34.2 "  N , 14 ° 27 ′ 33.4"  E