Křtěnov depot

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The Křtěnov Depot (also known as the Křtěnov hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Křtěnov , a district of Temelín in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. The objects still preserved in the depot are today divided between the National Museum in Prague , the Museum in Týn nad Vltavou and the Prehistoric Institute of the University of Vienna .

Find history

The location of the depot is today on the site of the Temelín nuclear power plant

The depot was discovered in 1884 southwest of Křtěnov on the field "Na dolní Jablonce" while plowing. A follow-up archaeological investigation by H. Richlý did not reveal any further findings. The site was on the southern slope of a small but prominent hill. On the north side of the hill there is a Bronze Age to Iron Age barrow field with originally around 300–400 burials. The Temelín depot at the same time was found in the vicinity in 1913/14 . The site of the Křtěnov depot is now covered by the Temelín nuclear power plant .

composition

The depot consisted of seven bronze objects : six tubular shafts and a ridge hatchet . The objects had been carefully layered on top of one another so that the edge of one ax lay on the shaft of another. They were then tied with bronze wire on both sides. After the depot was found, two axes were given to the museum in Prague; the remaining items were initially in private hands. Today there are four axes in Prague, another in Týn nad Vltavou and one in Vienna. The ax is lost.

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. 122 ( 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. 216 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 10 ′ 42.2 "  N , 14 ° 22 ′ 42.8"  E