Milevsko area depot

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The Milevsko Area Depot (also known as the Milevsko Area Hort find ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunetitz culture from the Milevsko area in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. Today the depot is located in the Archaeological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1930 or 1931 while the road from Milevsko to Bernartice was being reconstructed . The site is located in the village of Bilina , a district of Veselíčko u Milevska . The somewhat younger Veselíčko depot was found nearby in 1930 .

composition

The depot was placed in a ceramic vessel. In this there were eleven bronze eyelet neck rings . The thinned ends were turned into loops, most of which have recently broken off. The rings have lengths between 152 mm and 175 mm and widths between 137 mm and 150 mm. Their weight is between 154 g and 180 g. The vessel was smashed when the find was salvaged and the shards were not picked up.

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. 279.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 129 ( 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. 224 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 23 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 14 ° 21 ′ 45 ″  E