Kosořice depot

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The Kosořice Depot (also known as the Kosořice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Kosořice in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the National Museum in Prague .

Find history

According to Václav Moucha , the depot was discovered before 1900, whereas Tilmann Vachta mentions the year 1894. The exact circumstances of the find are unknown.

composition

The depot consists of eight bronze objects : two arm spirals , three massive oval rings and three edge ridge axes . The arm spirals were made from ribbons with a lens-shaped cross-section. One end of a spiral is rounded, the second has recently broken off, as are both ends of the second spiral. The smaller of the oval rings has buffer ends. The two larger ones have thinned ends decorated with grooves. All three have a cast seam on their inside.

It is doubtful whether a fourth ax to the margin belongs to this depot. It was found near Kosořice in the direction of Rejšice and is now in the Dobrovice Museum .

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. 260.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 120 ( 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. 215 ( online ).