It was a typical March twenty-four lx minutes current nether the Orlické Mountains together with Mr. Frankota was walking his dog, Monty, along 1 of the fields. Suddenly Monty began frantically earthworks together with when Mr. Frankota came to accept a expect at what all the fuss was about, he noticed that bronze, sickle similar objects were appearing.
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| While on a walk amongst his possessor inwards the northern Bohemian hamlet of Kostelecké Horky, a domestic dog dug upward more than 20 unique Bronze Age objects [Credit: ČTK/PR/Královéhradecký kraj] |
Martina Beková is an archeologist working for the Museum together with Gallery of Orlické Mountains inwards the nearby town of Rychnov. She was a fellow member of the squad that examined the objects afterward their discovery.
“The fact that at that topographic point are together with thence many objects inwards 1 house is almost sure tied to an human activity of honoration, most probable a sacrifice of some sorts. What specially surprised us was that the objects were whole, because the civilization that lived hither at the fourth dimension unremarkably only buried fragments, frequently melted every bit well. These objects are beautiful, but the fact that they are consummate together with inwards adept status is of much to a greater extent than value to us.”
Mrs. Beková together with her colleagues believe these pieces belong to a grouping of Indo-Europeans that lived inwards the share during the belatedly Bronze Age. Their do of creating large burial grounds, where the deceased were placed inwards urns, has led to their official archaeological designation every bit the ‘urnfield culture’.
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“Archaeologists accept searched the surrounding fields amongst metallic detectors. There were some considerable changes to the surrounding terrain over the centuries, together with thence it is possible that the deeper layers are nevertheless hiding some secrets.“
Mrs. Velčovská is too eager to tell that the ‘Bronze Age treasure’, every bit the objects accept since teach known, is opening upward to the eyes of the wider public.
“An exhibition titled 'Journey to the Beginning of Time', opened today inwards the town of Kostelec nad Orlicí, together with the objects volition survive displayed at that topographic point from the 13th to the 21st of September.
“After that they volition accept to locomote through a conservation process. However, for the long term, nosotros intend to locomote along them inwards Kostelec every bit business office of a permanent exhibition inwards the palace, which houses diverse archaeological objects discovered inwards the region.”
Author: Tom McEnchroe | Source: Radio Praha [September 13, 2018]
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