Krtely depot
The Krtely Depot (also known as the Krtely hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Krtely , a district of Malovice in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is today between the Dr. jur. Otakar Kudrna Museum divided into Netolice and the National Museum in Prague .
Find history
The depot was discovered in 1920 while plowing south of Krtely. The site is located in a bowl-shaped valley that is bordered on three sides by hills and is only open to the east. On the hills in the northeast there is a group of burial mounds , on the hills in the south there is another group of burial mounds and an Iron Age fortification.
composition
The depot consists of six bronze objects , all of which Tilmann Vachta addresses as eyelet neck rings. According to Václav Moucha , however, there are four ring bars and two eyelet neck rings. The ring bars are only roughly processed. With two copies, one end was broken off in prehistoric times. In the third one end is prehistoric and one broken off in a modern way, in the fourth both ends are broken off in modern times. The two eyelet neck rings are made from a rod with a circular cross-section. Its surface is clearly faceted . Three ring bars and a ring neck ring are in Prague, the other two items in Netolice.
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. 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. 216 ( online ).
Coordinates: 49 ° 4 ′ 54.2 " N , 14 ° 10 ′ 12.4" E