Hoard from Dermsdorf

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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 12 ″  N , 11 ° 11 ′ 56 ″  E

Hoard from Dermsdorf
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location Thuringia , Germany
Location Dermsdorf
Hoard find from Dermsdorf (Thuringia)
Hoard from Dermsdorf
When approx. 2000–1700 BCE
Where Dermsdorf , Sömmerda district / Thuringia

The Dermsdorf hoard was discovered in spring 2011 during an excavation on the construction site of the future bypass of Dermsdorf ( Sömmerda district ) by employees of the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology ( TLDA ) in Weimar . The also uncovered traces of the former Bronze Age settlement - posts, garbage pits, graves - assign the hoard to the early Bronze Age (approx. 2000–1700 BCE).

Find description

Not far from the Early Bronze Age prince's grave of Leubingen , Thuringian archaeologists made outstanding finds: During the excavations on the construction site of a new bypass for Dermsdorf, they discovered the largest house from the Early Bronze Age in Central Germany and a depot with 93 bronze axes.

Since April 2011 the employees of the Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology have been digging on the construction site for the new bypass of Dermsdorf. So far they have found around 500 archaeological finds on an area of ​​7000 m 2 . The excavated traces of settlement belong to the Early Bronze Age and the Middle Ages (8th-11th centuries).

The hoard

The most outstanding find is an unusually large depository with bronze axes. The axes, of varying quality, were deposited in a clay pot about 3800 years ago. Only a few of these depot finds have so far been able to reconstruct the circumstances of their landfilling. The archaeologists hid the find in the block for further investigation in the restoration workshop of the state office. The first tomographic images show that the vessel is filled to the brim with 93 bronze axes. "In the course of the restoration, information on the composition and origin of the raw materials as well as the manufacturing technique of the axes should be obtained through archaeochemical and metallurgical investigations."

The longhouse

The find is of particular importance because it was excavated directly on the face of an early Bronze Age nave . The unusual 10.5 m wide and 44 m long building stood on a slight hill within sight of the grave of the bronze prince of Leubingen. "Further information on the use of the building and its dating should be provided by the ongoing excavations and the subsequent evaluation together with various scientific studies."

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d See press release of the TLDA from July 15, 2011: Early Bronze Age Treasure House .
  2. ↑ a b Cf. The State Hall of the Princes of Leubingen .
  3. ↑ Cf. Katharina Bolle: Princely residential building from the Bronze Age discovered. In: EPOC. Heidelberg 2011.4. ISSN  1865-5718

literature

  • Katharina Bolle: Princely residential building from the Bronze Age discovered. In: EPOC. Heidelberg 2011.4. ISSN  1865-5718
  • Sigrid Dušek : Prehistory and early history of Thuringia. Theiss, Stuttgart 1999, p. 74. ISBN 3-8062-1504-9
  • Ernst Probst : Germany in the Bronze Age . Munich 1996.
  • M. Schwarz: Got rich through copper and salt? In: Harald Meller (ed.): Beauty, Power and Death. 120 finds from 120 years of the State Museum for Prehistory in Halle. Volume accompanying the special exhibition , Halle (Saale), 2001, p. 62f.
  • Bernd Zich: The princely graves of Leubingen and Helmsdorf . In: Harald Meller (ed.), The forged sky. The wide world in the heart of Europe 3600 years ago. Accompanying volume for the special exhibition , Halle (Saale), 2004, p. 156f.
  • Bernd Zich: Studies on the regional and chronological structure of the northern Aunjetitz culture . Berlin 1996.

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