Queis depot
The Queis Depot (also called Hortfund von Queis , misleadingly also called Depot or Hortfund von Halle-Queis ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Queis , a district of Landsberg in the Saalekreis ( Saxony-Anhalt ). It dates to between 2200 and 2000 BC. Chr.
Find history
The depot was discovered in 2001 during an archaeological excavation as part of the development of the Star Park industrial park and was recovered in the block . The site was near a settlement of the Aunjetitz culture. First a computed tomography was made in order to be able to document all existing objects in their original position. This was then uncovered in the restoration workshop of the State Office for Archeology Saxony-Anhalt in Halle (Saale) . The depot is now in the permanent exhibition of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle.
composition
The depot had been laid down in a ceramic pot and consists of a Armspirale , a dress pin (both bronze) as well as a necklace , the bronze of 27 spiral rolls and 18 Bernstein - pearl is composed.
literature
- Elke Mattheußer : Findings of the Aunjetitz culture in the northwest area. In: A broad field. Excavations in the industrial area Halle / Queis (= archeology in Saxony-Anhalt. Special volume 1), State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2003, ISBN 3-910010-75-X , pp. 67–74
- Harald Meller (eds.), Regine Maraszek, Juraj Lipták: Bronzerausch. Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (= booklets accompanying the permanent exhibition in the State Museum of Prehistory, Volume 4). State Museum for Prehistory, Halle (Saale) 2011, ISBN 978-3-939414-58-2 , pp. 140ff.
- Christa Stahl : Central European amber finds from the Early Bronze to the Early La Tène Period. Their distribution, form, time and origin. Röll, Dettelbach 2006, ISBN 978-3-89754-245-7 , pp. 16-17 ( online ).