Skočice depot

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The Skočice Depot (also known as the Skočice hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Skočice in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. Today the depot is divided between the National Museum in Prague , the Museum in Písek and the Prehistoric Institute of Charles University in Prague .

Find history

The depot was discovered before 1940 while breaking stones in the forest southwest of Skočice. The site is at the foot of a steeply overhanging rock wall that forms three small caves at this point. Here the depot was 20 cm deep in a gravel layer.

composition

The depot consists of several bronze bars . There are different details about the exact number. In the original find report 27 are mentioned, Václav Moucha counts 30, of which he could only see 20 personally. The length of the specimens examined by Moucha is between 285 mm and 305 mm, the weight between 80 g and 97 g. The total weight of these 20 copies is 1.727 kg.

According to Moucha, there are ten bars in the National Museum in Prague, 19 in the Písek Museum and one in the Prehistoric Institute in Prague.

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), pp. 283–284.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 148 ( 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. 241 ( online ).

Coordinates: 49 ° 9 '56.4 "  N , 14 ° 5' 21.7"  E