LONDON: A pet dog has helped discover a trove of over 20 unique Bronze Age items — including sickles, spear points, and bracelets — dating back more than 3,000 years, researcher said.
In March this year, a man was walking his dog along one of the fields under the Orlicke Mountains in Czech Republic when it began frantically digging.
Eventually, 13 of the sickles, as well as two spear points, three axes and a number of bracelets were discovered from the spot.
“The fact that there are so many objects in one place is almost certainly tied to an act of honoration, most likely a sacrifice of some sorts,” said Martina Bekova, an archaeologist working for the Museum and Gallery of Orlicke Mountains in Czech Republic.
“What particularly surprised us was that the objects were whole, because the culture that lived here at the time normally just buried fragments, often melted as well,” Bekova was quoted as saying by ‘Czech Radio’.
The pieces likely belonged to a group of Indo-Europeans living in the region during the late Bronze Age.
Their practice of creating large burial grounds, where the deceased were placed in urns, has led to their official archaeological designation as the ‘urnfield culture’. (AGENCIES)
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