Luštěnice depot

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The Luštěnice depot (also known as the Luštěnice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Luštěnice in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. Most of the items still preserved in the depot are now in the Regional Museum in Mladá Boleslav , other pieces are in the museums of Poděbrady , Dobrovice and Benátky nad Jizerou and in the National Museum in Prague .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1912 in the north-west of Luštěnice while plowing. The site is on the western slope of the valley of the Vlkava brook .

composition

The depot originally consisted of a total of 57 bronze objects : 25 eyelet neck rings , seven solid oval rings and a fragment of another, six full-grip daggers , two hilt daggers, 14 dagger blades and two dagger blades . There is also a decorative disk (Falere) made of white metal . With the oval rings, two pairs can be combined into one group, a third pair forms another group. The full-grip daggers are one of the Aunjetitz type, one of the Oder-Elbe type, three of the Saxon type and a derivative of the Saxon type. The two hilt daggers are of the Swiss type. The dagger blades form five groups: five belong to the Saxon type, three others have cross-hatching decoration, two short and two long blades are each set with three rivets, the fifth group consists of two specimens with straight blade ends. The falere is decorated with concentric circles. Their diameter is 151 mm.

The objects had been carefully arranged. The rings were pushed together. The daggers and blades were found pointing downwards, that is, they had probably been stuck in the ground.

In Poděbrady there are now a full-grip dagger, two hilt daggers and a dagger blade, in Dobrovice an eyelet neck ring, five oval rings, a full-grip dagger and three dagger blades, in Benátky nad Jizerou two eyelet neck rings, an oval ring and two dagger blades and in Prague the Falere. The remaining items ended up in Mladá Boleslav. Of these, a dagger blade and a stick dagger blade are missing today.

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. 262.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , pp. 126–128 ( 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. 221 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 28.5 ″  N , 14 ° 55 ′ 58.5 ″  E