Přídolí depot

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The depot of Přídolí (also hoard find of Přídolí ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Přídolí in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. The depot is now in the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 2005 north-north-west of Přídolí in the forest on the east bank of the Drahoslavícky river with a metal detector . This was followed by an archaeological follow-up examination. The river flows through a gorge-like valley here. The place of discovery is at its narrowest point. The finds were in a stone box that was covered with a flat stone.

composition

The depot consists of 88 copper bars , several of which are incomplete. The bars lay in the box, some of them stuck in the floor or walls. The total weight of the finds is 5.295 kg.

literature

  • Ondřej Chvojka , Jiří Havlice . Měděná žebra starší doby bronzové v jižních Čechách. Nové depoty z Přídolí, Purkarce a Chvalšin - Copper bars from the Early Bronze Age in South Bohemia. New finds from Přídolí, Purkarec and Kladné. In: Památky archeologické. Volume 100, 2009, pp. 51-58 ( 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. 238 ( online ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 9.2 "  N , 14 ° 20 ′ 21.6"  E