Suché Vrbné depot

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The Suché Vrbné depot (also known as the Suché Vrbné hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Suché Vrbné , a district of Budweis in Jihočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates between 2000 and 1800 BC. The depot is now in the South Bohemian Museum in Budweis.

Find history

The depot was found in June 1908 during excavation work near Dobrovodská Street at a depth of 60 cm. Three other Aunjetitz culture depots are known from the urban area of ​​Budweis: the Ceske Budejovice depot , the Mladé depot and the Nové Vráto depot .

composition

The depot consists of 49 bronze eyelet neck rings and five fragments of other rings. Their surfaces have fine facets . The ends are tapered and broken off in many specimens. The smallest ring has a length of 150 mm and a width of 130 mm, the largest a length of 180 mm and a width of 144 mm. Eleven copies weigh between 180 g and 189 g. The total weight of the rings is 8.67 kg. The rings were found together with a (apparently not saved) ceramic shard. They may have originally been placed in a vessel.

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. 284.
  • Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 159 ( 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. 246 ( online ).

Coordinates: 48 ° 58 '17.4 "  N , 14 ° 30' 26.8"  E