Stollhof deposit found
The Stollhof depot in the municipality of Hohe Wand in Lower Austria was discovered in 1864 by a shepherd at an altitude of 700–800 m above Stollhof. The depot from the 4th millennium BC BC (older copper age ) with copper finds and the oldest gold finds in Austria consists of:
- 9 spiral rolls with lengths between about 5.6 and 24 cm
- 6 double spiral pendants made of round wire, two of which are tightly wound with a small central loop and four loosely wound with a large central loop. The outer diameters of the spirals are between 10.1 and 12.3 cm.
- 2 flat axes, length approx. 14 and 16.5 cm
- 2 arm spirals (9.5 and 10 turns), cross section 5.0 and 5.5 cm; Length 7.0 and 7.5 cm
- 2 gold discs, diameter 10.6 and 13.8 cm; Weight 71 and 121 g
- 1 boar tooth-shaped decorative sheet; Length 15.2 cm.
The gold disks show three pressed bosses and dot decoration. Holes punched in pairs were used for attachment. Parallels to the discs are known from Brześć Kujawski and Jordansmühl (Poland - partly with additional finds) and Zalaszentgrót (Csáford, Hungary), which confirm that Stollhof is a closed complex of finds.
An ax was described by Pál Patay as belonging to the Szakalhát type, which is typical of the Bodrogkeresztur culture.
The find is said to have originally contained more objects, because two of the eight double spirals and four eyeglass spirals made from a wire with 50% gold and silver content did not make it to the Natural History Museum Vienna.
Web links
- Wilhelm Angeli: The deposit of Stollhof. Ann. Natural history. Mus. Vienna 70, pp. 491-496, Vienna, October 1967 (description of the find; PDF; 5.2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ There is still controversy about the fund, which was initially classified as Eeneolitic and whose gold derivatives were used until the Bronze Age. It may be at the beginning of a development that led to the Iron Age cardiophylax.