Kostelec depot

The Kostelec depot (also known as the Kostelec hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture that was found between Kostelec and Chyjice in Královéhradecký 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 while plowing at an unknown point in time and was given to the National Museum in Prague around 1869. The site is located on the parcel "Na stráni", which is located in the municipality of Chyjice. But since the finder lived in Kostelec, the depot was named after this place.

composition

The depot consists of three bronze wire rings.

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 121 ( 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 ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 15.8 ″  N , 15 ° 18 ′ 1.9 ″  E