Rousovice depot

The Rousovice Depot (also known as the Rousovice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Rousovice , a district of Mělník in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. Today the depot is in the Mělník Museum .

Find history

The depot was discovered in 1923 during track construction work on the grounds of the sugar factory. The water from a gutter had washed the earth around a track here and several bronze objects were found by chance in the resulting pit . The site is on the lower part of a slope on the east bank of the Elbe .

composition

The depot originally consisted of at least 12-15 sales axes . Only one of these was initially canceled. Others were later found in a barrel of scrap metal. A total of six axes are still preserved today, five of which are rough casts.

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 147 ( 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. 240 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 23.4 "  N , 14 ° 29 ′ 25.4"  E