Minice depot

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The Minice Depot (also known as the Minice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Minice , a district of Kralupy nad Vltavou in Středočeský 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 in 1904 while digging a foundation. The finds were in a layer of ash. Another deposit from the neighboring town of Míkovice dates back to the same period. Five individual finds of bronze objects from the Aunjetitz culture are also known from Minice .

composition

The depot consists of two golden ribbed, low, open arm cuffs and four fragments of spiral rolls made of gold wire. An arm cuff is recently damaged.

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. 261.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 130 ( 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 ).