Otvovice depot

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The Otvovice Depot (also known as the Otvovice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Otvovice in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. The objects still preserved from the depot are now in the Kladno Museum .

Find history

The depot was first mentioned in 1932. The exact location and the circumstances of the find are unknown.

composition

The depot originally consisted of four bronze clasp ingots and fragments of two other bars. Three bars are slightly widened in the middle and have slightly curved, narrowed and rounded ends. The fourth bar is semicircular and has narrowed and rounded ends. The two fragments are broken recently. One of them is missing, but a photograph exists.

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. 263.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 136 ( 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. 229 ( online ).