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.
Při povrchové prospekci s využitím detektorů kovů byla z doposud archeologicky sterilního k. ú. Nová Sídla (okr. Svitavy, Pardubický kraj) získána kolekce necelé stovky kovových artefaktů. Kromě několika pravěkých předmětů je kolekce tvořena řemeslnickými a zemědělskými nástroji, předměty osobní potřeby a militárii datovanými do středověku a novověku. Při průzkumu nebyly zjištěny intaktní archeologické situace, předměty se nacházely v podloží či lesní humusové vrstvě. Nálezová situace chronologicky značně heterogenního souboru ukazuje, že situaci musíme interpretovat jako důsledek dlouhodobých aktivit souvisejících s komunikací, která dnes v terénu nezanechala žádné viditelné stopy. and The metal detector aided surface survey of the up to the present sterile area of Nová Sídla (Svitavy district, Pardubice region) yielded an assemblage of almost a hundred metal artefacts. Apart from several prehistoric items, the assemblage consists from craft and agricultural tools, articles of personal use, and militaria, dated to the Middle Ages and the Modern Period. No intact archaeological situations were detected during the survey, and the objects were found in the subsoil or in the forest humus layer. The depositional context of the chronologically very heterogeneous assemblage shows that it must be interpreted as a result of longterm activities related with communication that left no visible vestiges in the terrain into the present.