Mory's depot

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The Mory Depot (also the Mory hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Mory , a district of Podbořany in Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The preserved items from the depot are now in the Chomutov Regional Museum .

Find history

The depot was first mentioned in 1896. The exact date of the find and the circumstances of the find are unknown. The site was in a hop garden, to the left of the road to Račetice .

composition

The depot originally consisted of six bronze objects : an arm spiral , fragments of three other arm spirals, an eyelet neck ring and a ring made from a loop needle . The latter is missing today. The eyelet collar has recently broken.

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. 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. 225 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 16 ′ 37.1 ″  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 2.4 ″  E