Depot finds from Dobritz and Laubegast

The deposit from 1948; State Museum for Archeology Chemnitz

The depot finds from Dobritz and Laubegast represent a whole series of Bronze Age depot finds in the area of the former Knobloch sand pit on the boundary of the Dresden districts Dobritz and Laubegast . This border situation led to sometimes contradicting location information in the literature. Within a populated area, most of the landfills were only carried out at relatively short intervals during the Younger Bronze Age . Parts of the depot finds from Dobritz and Laubegast are exhibited in the State Museum of Archeology in Chemnitz . The site was on a ridge of sand in the lowlands , surrounded by an old arm of the Elbe. Today the sand pit is backfilled and no longer accessible.

The most important find was discovered on July 9, 1948 ("Dobritz Depot"). It is a set of crockery made of bronze , consisting of a bucket, a sieve and 14 cups as well as two scoops with broken handles, which were placed in a ceramic vessel. It dates to the late Bronze Age , around 1200 to 1050 BC. Chr. (Ha A after Reinecke ) and is considered to be the most extensive Bronze Age metal vessel find in Germany to date.

On September 5, 1945 , damaged and broken rag axes , sickles and chunks of cast iron were found in a large egg-shaped pot . This hoard find also dates to the late Bronze Age, 1050 to 950 BC. Chr. (Ha B1) and was probably already in the Laubegast district.

On May 4th of the same year a ceramic vessel was found in a pit with eight sickles, four rag axes , an arm ring, a fibula hanger, a chunk of cast iron and many fragments of all of this. This also dates from the late Bronze Age, 1050 to 950 BC. Chr. (Ha B1) and in the Laubegast district.

In 1938 another depot, consisting of a bronze lance tip, two rag axes, a sickle and an ornate foot ring, was discovered. The dating here: 1100 to 950 BC. BC (Ha A2 / B1), also late Bronze Age.

As early as 1897 , before the sand pit existed, 31 bronzes were found in a ceramic vessel while plowing. It was a so-called Brucher ore find consisting of rag axes, sickles and fragments. Dating: late Bronze Age, 1050 to 950 BC Chr. (Ha B1).

An early Bronze Age hoard was discovered in 1938 . It consists of a tongue-shaped bar , a round bar ring, two fragments (of eyelet neck rings ?), Two spiral arms and a dagger blade with four broken rivet holes. The dating between 1800 and 1600 BC Chr. Assigns the find to the Aunjetitz culture .

literature

Wilhelm Albert von Brunn : Central German hoard finds of the younger Bronze Age . DeGruyter, Berlin 1968 (2 vols.).
Werner Coblenz : Rich bronze finds from the Lausitz settlement of Dresden-Dobritz / Laubegast. In: Heinz-Joachim Vogt (ed.): Archaeological field research in Saxony. Fifty years of the State Museum for Prehistory Dresden . German publishing house for science, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-326-00337-4 .
Friederike Koch (Ed.): Bronze Age. Lusatia 3000 years ago . Museum der Westlausitz, Kamenz 2007, ISBN 978-3-910018-44-0 .

Web link

3D model of the Kurd-type bronze bucket from the vessel depot @ archaeo3d.de, with a link to the other additional vessels, accessed May 24, 2020

Individual evidence

^ Roland Heynowski: Younger Bronze Age. Lusatian culture - level of sharp-edged, grooved goods, level of horizontally grooved goods. In: Roland Heynowsky, Robert Reiss (Red.): Atlas of the history and regional studies of Saxony (supplement to map BI 1.1–1.5 Prehistory and Early History of Saxony). Leipzig and Dresden 2010, p. 96, ISBN 978-3-89679-923-4 .
^ Werner Coblenz: The bronze vessel find from Dresden-Dobritz . In: Work and research reports on Saxon soil monument preservation , Vol. 2 (1951/52), pp. 135–161, ISSN 0402-7817 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Jasmin Kaiser: Directory of East Saxon metal hoards . In: Friederike Koch (Ed.): Bronze Age. Lusatia 3000 years ago . Museum der Westlausitz , Kamenz 2007, pp. 96–106, ISBN 978-3-910018-44-0 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Museum der Westlausitz, January 18 to September 2, 2007).
↑ ^a ^b Werner Coblenz: Two new rich bronze finds from Dresden-Laubegast . In: Arbeits- und Forschungsberichte zur Sächsische Bodendenkmalpflege , Vol. 3 (1953), pp. 102–118, ISSN 0402-7817 .
^ Walter Grünberg: Two Bronze Age hoard finds in Dresden hallway . In: Saxony's prehistory. Yearbook for local prehistory and early history , Vol. 2 (1938/39), pp. 133-139, ISSN 0259-7853
↑ Wilhelm A. von Brunn: Central German hoards of the younger Bronze Age, vol. 1 (Roman-Germanic research; vol. 29). DeGruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 315.
↑ Wilhelm A. von Brunn: Bronze Age hoards, vol. 1: The hoards of the early Bronze Age from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957.

[1] Roland Heynowski: Younger Bronze Age. Lusatian culture - level of sharp-edged, grooved goods, level of horizontally grooved goods. In: Roland Heynowsky, Robert Reiss (Red.): Atlas of the history and regional studies of Saxony (supplement to map BI 1.1–1.5 Prehistory and Early History of Saxony). Leipzig and Dresden 2010, p. 96, ISBN 978-3-89679-923-4 .

[2] Werner Coblenz: The bronze vessel find from Dresden-Dobritz . In: Work and research reports on Saxon soil monument preservation , Vol. 2 (1951/52), pp. 135–161, ISSN 0402-7817 .

[Kaiser_2007-3] Jasmin Kaiser: Directory of East Saxon metal hoards . In: Friederike Koch (Ed.): Bronze Age. Lusatia 3000 years ago . Museum der Westlausitz , Kamenz 2007, pp. 96–106, ISBN 978-3-910018-44-0 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Museum der Westlausitz, January 18 to September 2, 2007).

[Coblenz_1953-4] Werner Coblenz: Two new rich bronze finds from Dresden-Laubegast . In: Arbeits- und Forschungsberichte zur Sächsische Bodendenkmalpflege , Vol. 3 (1953), pp. 102–118, ISSN 0402-7817 .

[5] Walter Grünberg: Two Bronze Age hoard finds in Dresden hallway . In: Saxony's prehistory. Yearbook for local prehistory and early history , Vol. 2 (1938/39), pp. 133-139, ISSN 0259-7853

[6] Wilhelm A. von Brunn: Central German hoards of the younger Bronze Age, vol. 1 (Roman-Germanic research; vol. 29). DeGruyter, Berlin 1968, p. 315.

[7] Wilhelm A. von Brunn: Bronze Age hoards, vol. 1: The hoards of the early Bronze Age from Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1957.