Volárna depot

The Volárna Depot (also known as the Volárna hoard ) is a depot find of the Early Bronze Age Aunjetitz culture from Volárna in Středočeský kraj , Czech Republic . It dates to between 1800 and 1600 BC. The preserved items from the depot are now in the Poděbrady Museum .

Find history

The depot was discovered in May or June 1912 west of Volárna near the soil drainage. It was at a depth of 30 cm. The site is on flat terrain. Until the 19th century there was an artificial pond here, which was later drained. The area was probably already a damp lowland in the Bronze Age.

composition

The depot originally consisted of ten bronze bars that had acquired a reddish patina due to storage in a damp environment . Since the metal was very fragile, most of the pieces were broken and thrown away by the workers. Only four fragments that weighed 26 g, 28 g, 50 g and 70 g got into the museum.

literature

• Václav Moucha : Hoards from the early Bronze Age in Bohemia. Archeologický ústav AV ČR, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-86124-57-6 , p. 164 ( 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. 253 ( online ).

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 ′ 29.8 "  N , 15 ° 13 ′ 5.7"  E