Abstract
In the autumn of 2020, a hoard of bronze objects deposited in a ceramic vessel was discovered on the slope of the Pardědub hill near Skalička nad Labem, Hradec Králové District. Thanks to the exemplary attitude of the finders, it was possible to remove a part of the assemblage intact and take samples for scientific analysis in laboratory conditions.
The find is extraordinary due to its chronological position at the turn of the Late and Final Bronze Age. Its geographical position is also remarkable, due to its placement on the edge of two important settlement areas and on a prominent hillock from which no other evidence for contemporaneous settlement or funeral activities is known.
The assemblage consists of both complete and incomplete objects. It also contains, among others, a variant of the so-called shield fibula which has so far not been known from the territory of Bohemia and which indicates persisting longdistance contacts with Lower Silesia along the eastern Bohemian branch of the Amber Road.