Těchlovice Depot (Okres Hradec Králové)

The Těchlovice Depot (also known as the Těchlovice hoard ) is a depot from the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Těchlovice in Královéhradecký kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. Chr.

Find history

The depot was discovered in 2008 in the forest northeast of Těchlovice with a metal detector . The site is located at the western end of a trough in the terrain running in a west-east direction.

composition

The depot consists of eleven bronze objects : eight bars , two ax axes and a needle. The objects had been placed in order. The axes lay upright, parallel to each other, with the needle between them. The bars were laid across the axes.

literature

• 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 , pp. 247-248 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 48.4 ″  N , 15 ° 43 ′ 20.3 ″  E