Hoard II from Erfweiler-Ehlingen

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The hoard II of Erfweiler-Ehlingen is a Brucherz hort from the late Bronze Age . It was discovered in 2007 on the field "Am Rodenwald" belonging to the municipality of Erfweiler-Ehlingen , about 600 meters from the site of Hortfund I from Erfweiler-Ehlingen , which was discovered in 2002 . The hoard consists of 52 bronze finds as well as the lower part of an urn made of clay and weighs 6 kg.

Finding

In June 2007, a volunteer at the State Monuments Office in Saarland found a bronze spout ax during a field inspection . As Hortfund I of Erfweiler-Ehlingen was discovered about 600 meters away in 2002, the State Monuments Office suspected that further finds could be expected here. After the maize harvest, a systematic search began in November 2007. In the first two days, 24 bronze finds were found in the plow horizon (north-south). Some of these were directly on the surface of the field. On November 15th, the depot was located with the help of a metal detector. When checking the signal, three more objects were recovered. When it was uncovered on November 16, 2007, 25 further objects were found in situ approx. 0.2 meters below the surface . These lay in the lower part of a clay pot, the rest of which had been destroyed by plowing the field. The pit in which the clay pot was deposited had a round shape and a diameter of about 0.55 meters. The finds are in detail:

Finds in situ

  • A base of an urn made of clay
  • An intact shank ax made of bronze
  • An intact socket chisel made of bronze
  • An intact spout band made of bronze
  • Four intact ring pendants made of bronze
  • An intact bronze phalerus
  • An intact bronze spiral
  • Seven bronze bars
  • Three pieces of bronze ingot
  • Three fragments of bronze arm rings
  • The edge of a bronze ax
  • A temple fragment of a bronze fibula
  • Part of a bronze rod

Finds ex situ These finds were carried away by the plow up to 22 meters in a north-south direction, but obviously belong to the hoard.

  • Four intact bronze axes
  • Two tops of bronze axes
  • An upper half of a bronze ax
  • Two front halves of bronze axes
  • Two bronze grommet axes
  • A spout chisel made of bronze
  • The edge of a bronze ax
  • A spout knife made of bronze
  • A bronze button sickle
  • A fragment of the handle of a bronze sickle tongue
  • One edge of a bronze sickle tongue
  • Three fragments of a sickle tongue
  • A small bronze sickle
  • A foot ring with paw ends made of bronze
  • One half of a foot ring with paw ends made of bronze
  • One third of a foot ring with flat bronze disc ends
  • A ring made of bronze
  • A fragment of a bronze ingot
  • Four bronze bars

Dating

The hoard find was based on comparisons with the shank axes, eyelet pendants and ring pendants from the depot of Wallerfangen as well as the sickles and the spout knife with finds from the depot II of Brebach and the depot of Saarlouis-Roden in the late Bronze Age (900 BC). dated.

Overall view

According to Frauke Stein's classification, this hoard find is a Brucherz find. Due to the lack of cast spigots, rough casts and faulty castings, but the presence of sickles, which indicate an arable population, it is not to be regarded as mandatory that the hoard belonged to a craftsman. It could also have been buried by the local population. The shallow depth at which the depot was buried also suggests that the hoard was originally covered by a hill, which in turn suggests cultic reasons. The Tüllenortband found in the hoard, which belonged to a leather sword scabbard, could, based on comparative finds in France, have belonged to a sword of the Auvernier type or to a carp-tongue sword (as in the hoard from Saarlouis). Most likely, however, that it belonged to a carrot sword (as in the hoard of Wallerfangen).

The phalers and the four ring pendants can be addressed as parts of a horse harness that served as a belt distributor. Comparative finds from other depots also speak for this.

literature

  • Peter Schauer (Ed.): Archaeological research on cult events in the Younger Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Old Europe: Results of a colloquium in Regensburg, 4. – 7. October 1993 . Universitätsverlag Regensburg, Regensburg 1996, ISBN 3-930480-21-2 .
  • Svend v. Hansen , Daniel Neumann, Tilmann Vachta (eds.): Hort and space: Current research on Bronze Age landfills in Central Europe. De Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-029020-2 .
  • Svend v. Hansen, Daniel Neumann, Tilmann Vachta (eds.): Space, gift and memory: votive offerings and sanctuaries in prehistoric and ancient societies. edition topoi, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9816751-3-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walter Reinhard: Der Hortfund II (2007) from Erfweiler-Ehlingen Am Rodenwald (9th century BC). In: Die Kelten im Saarland , Denkmalpflege im Saarland 8, Ministry for Education and Culture - Landesdenkmalamt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-927856-21-9 , pages 26–41
  2. ↑ Frauke Stein: Bronze Age hoard finds in southern Germany. Contributions to the interpretation of a source genre . Habelt, 1976, ISBN 978-3-7749-1331-8

Coordinates: 49 ° 12 ′ 41.8 "  N , 7 ° 10 ′ 34.7"  E