Valuables from nearby and faraway. Testimony of supraregional contacts on the Late La Tène bailey of the Kolo hillfort near Týnec nad Labem, Kolín district
Abstract
Paper evaluates collection of the selected finds, that had been uncovered during a rescue excavation of site near Týnec nad Labem in 2014, and consequently were being accomplished with field survey until the summer 2016. At that time next to the Kolo hillfort near Týnec nad Labem was detected a settlement, that could be identified as a suburbium.
The location of the site on a bank of Labe river indicates an important traffic function, which allowed entrance of subjects and objects inside an area of the hillfort. In this paper selected artefacts, which could be considered as imports and evidences of contacts with more or less distant areas are discussed.
The resulting image allows us to see Kolo hillfort as a part of the trading network not only of the late La Tène Bohemia, but also of a larger system extending at least to the middle Danube.