In 2008 the Institute of Archeological Heritage Presevation in Brno in collaboration with MZM Brno confiued field surveys using metal detectors at selected La Tene localities in Moravia. The surveys targetted settlements attached to the power centre of the La Tene Age in the village of Němčice (Prostějov region) and in the Boskovice depression. Collections were aslo obtained over two surwey periods from Roman sites in the village of Rakvice in south MOravia and in the village of Dolní Němčí-Vlčnov in south -east Moravia. Apart from the artifact and the information they yielded, the survey also revaeled more general knowledge about the sites, which unambiguously shows the necessity of carrying out metal detector prospecting by archaeological instituions. The finds have considerably enriched our knowledge of the Middle Bronze Age period (exemplified by a needle with an eyelet of a Lower Silesian origin) and of the Roman period (exemplifield by a brooch of Aucissa type, a brooch with cut out bow, brooches A 129 and bronze moulds for the production of the Early Roman bridles of the Vimose type., Miloš Čižmář .. .[et al.]., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
During 2009, ÚAPP Brno in conjunction with MZM Brno continued surveys using metal detectors at selected Moravian La Tène sites. The field survey has focused particularly on investigations of the settlement hinterland from the La Tène period in Nˇemˇcice near Prostˇejov and the surrounding settlements, sites in the Boskovice Furrow and the Staré Hradisko Celtic oppidum. Artifact assemblages were also recovered from two surveys of several sites in southern Moravia. Apart from the individual finds and the information they yielded, the surveys also provided more general information. These results reaffirm the view that it is necessary for archaeological institutions to conduct such metal detector surveys. The new finds have clearly added to our knowledge, particularly with regards to the La Tène culture, with the finding of a palmette-shaped belt-clasp from Drnholec, mask handle base from Polkovice, "Dreiblattknopf" from Hevlín and two brooch fragments of a so far unknown type from Staré Hradisko, and unusually for the early Slavonic period north of the Danube, a rare Byzantine belt-clasp fragment (from Bedihošt’). Another artifact which further attests to the importance of metal detector surveys is a Late Roman brooch of the Hrušica type found at Dyjákovice, the first such find in the Czech Republic., Miloš Čižmář ... [et al.]., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Informace o nové sídlištní lokalitě na střední Moravě, která má počátek na konci stupně LT B2 a rozkvět v období LT C1-2, v jehož závěru osídlení na ní končí. Nálezy ukazují, že jde o důležité výrobní a obchodní centrum nadregionálního významu, srovnatelné s nedalekým oppidem Staré Hradisko, které na ně časově navazuje. Na rozdíl od Starého Hradiska se silnými vazbami především na českou bójskou oblast vykazuje lokalita Němčice silný vztah k střednímu Podunají s kontakty se slovinským a severoitalským územím. Příčinu časově následné existence obou mocenských center s výrazně odlišnými nadregionálními vazbami lze spatřovat s největší pravděpodobností v závažných historických změnách ze závěru 2. stol. př. n. l., spojených s pohyby germánských kmenů na našem území. Z lokality pochází doposud největší a skladbou nejvýznamnější soubor mincí z doby laténské nejen na Moravě, ale i v celém středodunajském prostoru. Doposud evidovaných 424 mincí lze rozdělit do tří skupin: domácí keltské, cizí keltské a jiné (antické) ražby. and Information regarding a new settlement site in central Moravia, which appeared at the end of the LT B2 phase and flourished in the LT C1-2, when occupation ended. The finds indicate that this was an important production and trading centre of supra-regional importance, comparable to the nearby oppidum at Staré Hradisko, to which it is related in time. Unlike Staré Hradisko, with its strong links above all to the Bohemia Boii territory, the site of Němčice displays a marked relationship with the Danube basin, with contacts to Slovene and northern Italian territories. The cause underlying the successive existence of the two power centres, with their conspicuously different supra-regional ties, is most likely associated with the major historical changes that took place at the close of the 2nd century BC, with the influx of Germanic tribes into what are now the Czech Lands. This site has yielded what is thus far the largest and, in terms of composition, most significant collection of La Tène coins not only from Moravia but from anywhere on the Middle Danube. The 424 coins identified thus far can be divided into three groups: domestic Celtic, foreign Celtic and other (ancient) mintings.
The ‘Celts Beneath the Pálava Hills’ exhibition was installed at the end of the summer of 2020 at the Regional Museum in Mikulov. The museum prepared the exhibition in cooperation with the Moravian Museum and the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno. Along with other unique exhibits, an assemblage of 70 metal artefacts stored in Dolní Dunajovice in the study collection of the Research Centre for the Roman and Great Migration periods of the Institute of Archaeology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, was chosen to be displayed for this event. The article presents 47 small artefacts made of copper alloys, 18 coins and five glass artefacts from 17 cadastral units, which enriched the exhibition with a variety of characteristic LT C and D1 finds. They do not form a complete collection, as their common denominator is that they were found in 2011–2017 solely by metal detectorists working together with the archaeologists from the workplace where the finds are stored. These never-before-published artefacts and the qualities of each deserve to be presented both to the public and the professional community. These artefacts include finds which, in the context of the Late Iron Age of south Moravia, are unique objects (including two bronze figurines) that are significant contributions to the clarification and differentiation of the topography of the La Tène settlement structure in the studied region.