Radostice depot

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The Radostice Depot (also known as the Radostice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Radostice , a district of Vchynice in Ústecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. BC The depot is one of the largest found in the Czech Republic. The surviving objects are now divided between the Litoměřice Museum , the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis and the National Museum in Prague .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1933 south-southwest of Radostice while mining. It was 85 cm deep and was covered with two flat stones. The site is on the eastern slope of the Ovčín mountain .

composition

The depot originally consisted of 200 bronze objects : 194 eyelet neck rings and six arm spirals . The rings are round or oval. Their surfaces have very fine facets . In one example, the ends are wrapped with wire. The majority of the rings weigh between 190 g and 209 g. The heaviest specimen has a weight of 236 g. The smallest is a miniature shape weighing 95 g. One of the arm spirals is made from a rod with a circular cross-section, the other from a ribbon with a lenticular cross-section. The weight of all items minus the lost rings and one unweighed ring is 33.935 kg. The total weight of the complete depot should have been 34–35 kg.

The majority of the depot was given to the museum in Litoměřice and the Schwarzenberg museum in the Ohrada castle near Hluboká nad Vltavou in equal parts (96 eyelet neck rings and two arm spirals each) (the second part later came to Budweis). One ring and two spirals came to Prague, another ring and a fragment of a spiral remained in private ownership in Litoměřice. 188 rings and the six spirals are still preserved today.

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. 274.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 146 ( 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. 239 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 33.8 ″  E