Czech Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Hoard With Smashed Sword and 8 Deformed Sickles
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 25
Czech Archaeologists Uncover 3,000-Year-Old Hoard With Smashed Sword and 8 Deformed Sickles
2 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 25
Summary
A Bronze Age hoard found near Kojetín in central Moravia contained a sword fragment apparently split by a single powerful blow, eight deliberately deformed sickles, one intact sickle, ingots and ornament pieces.
End-of-May excavations in a heavily flooded area uncovered the cache during railway-linked archaeological work, after researchers used metal detectors in a zone already known as an extensive prehistoric settlement.
Use-wear analysis showed most objects had been used before burial, and archaeologists said the damage pattern points away from a temporary stash and toward deliberate deposition.
A former wetland setting gives the find a possible ritual meaning, echoing other Bronze Age deposits placed in watery locations; specialists are still conserving and analyzing the artifacts.