Lužice depot (Kadaň)

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The Lužice Depot (also known as the Lužice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Lužice , a former village in the area of ​​the municipality of Kadaň in Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. Today the depot is in the regional museum in Most .

Find history

The depot was discovered on November 24, 1964 between the two villages of Lužice and Tušimice when the Čachovický brook was being laid . About 700 m to the northeast there was a settlement at the same time on a hilltop. The site is now built over by an industrial area. The place Lužice had to give way to an open- cast brown coal mine in 1972 .

composition

The depot consists of 15 bronze objects : six arm spirals , a chisel , a lance tip , six mushroom-headed needles and an awl . The spirals are cylindrical and made from a narrow ribbon. In some places they have a decor of zigzag lines and notches. The ends are partly straight, partly tick-like. The needles have a round shaft and an ornate and perforated head. The awl is pointed and thickened in the middle.

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. 272.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 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 ° 23 '4.5 "  N , 13 ° 21' 5.9"  E