Hoard with a miner’s pick from Krtely in South Bohemia
This article presents a hoard of 27 metal artefacts and fragments of one ceramic vessel from the South Bohemian site of Krtely, dated to the earlier phase of the Late Bronze Age (Br D – Ha A1). Two exceptional phenomena are associated with the hoard. The first is its placement in a burial mound, an...
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This article presents a hoard of 27 metal artefacts and fragments of one ceramic vessel from the South Bohemian site of Krtely, dated to the earlier phase of the Late Bronze Age (Br D – Ha A1). Two exceptional phenomena are associated with the hoard. The first is its placement in a burial mound, and the second is the presence of two fragments of a broken miner's pick, analogous to those found in the salt mines of Hallstatt. In addition to typological-chronological analyses, the article also includes elemental composition and use-wear analyses of the pick. Unique to this find is the reutilization of the pick as a chisel. The hoard also contained a fragment of a cast sword hilt with embedded fragments of other artefacts, examined by X-ray and tomographic analyses. The hoard from Krtely significantly contributes to the ongoing discussion on the role of Bronze Age metal hoards and their potential connections to ritualized behaviour and the spiritual world of that era.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e17df8103bb748589c352cf4ece3aa102025-08-20T02:59:14ZcesInstitute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, PragueArcheologické Rozhledy0323-12672570-91512024-11-01763–410.35686/AR.2024.248Hoard with a miner’s pick from Krtely in South BohemiaOndřej Chvojka0Luboš Jiráň1Jan John2Matěj Kmošek3Richard Thér4Tomáš Zachar5Institute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31a, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech RepublicInstitute of Archaeology of the CAS, Prague, Letenská 4, CZ-118 01 Praha 1, Czech RepublicInstitute of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31a, CZ-370 05 České Budějovice, Czech RepublicInstitute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno, Čechyňská 363, CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Archaeology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, Rokitanského 62, CZ-500 03 Hradec Králové, Czech RepublicArchaeological Heritage Office of Saxony, Zur Wetterwarte 7, D-01109 Dresden, Germany This article presents a hoard of 27 metal artefacts and fragments of one ceramic vessel from the South Bohemian site of Krtely, dated to the earlier phase of the Late Bronze Age (Br D – Ha A1). Two exceptional phenomena are associated with the hoard. The first is its placement in a burial mound, and the second is the presence of two fragments of a broken miner's pick, analogous to those found in the salt mines of Hallstatt. In addition to typological-chronological analyses, the article also includes elemental composition and use-wear analyses of the pick. Unique to this find is the reutilization of the pick as a chisel. The hoard also contained a fragment of a cast sword hilt with embedded fragments of other artefacts, examined by X-ray and tomographic analyses. The hoard from Krtely significantly contributes to the ongoing discussion on the role of Bronze Age metal hoards and their potential connections to ritualized behaviour and the spiritual world of that era. https://archeologickerozhledy.cz/index.php/ar/article/view/248South BohemiaLate Bronze Agehoardpickburial moundXRF analyses |
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| title | Hoard with a miner’s pick from Krtely in South Bohemia |
| title_full | Hoard with a miner’s pick from Krtely in South Bohemia |
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| title_short | Hoard with a miner’s pick from Krtely in South Bohemia |
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| topic | South Bohemia Late Bronze Age hoard pick burial mound XRF analyses |
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