Neues iiber die Kontakte langs der BernsteinstraBe wahrend der Spatlatenezeit

Abstract

On the hill-top settlement of Castelvecchio near Flagogna, on the northern borders of the plain of Friuli, numerous finds from the late Bronze Age, late Hallstatt and late Republican periods were discovered during the plunder diggings and the minor excavations, done here in 1992 and 1995. Among the late Hallstatt finds appears a silver Certosa fibula of the Flagogna variant, the product of a local workshop. Two late Republican finds are extremely interesting. One is the cover of a bone seal-box, a type widely distributed in the northern mediterranean area; single pieces of such boxes also reached the Central European Celts (Stradonice). The other find is a bronze cog-wheel pendant, which came to Friuli from the Celtic territory between Bohemia and Lower Austria. Some amber beads, discovered in Venetia (Adria, Oderzo) and Friuli (Aquileia), are probably also of Celtic origin. They have exact parallels on the Moravian oppidum of Stare Hradisko and within three late La Tene hoards (Pteni in Moravia, Szarazd- Regoly in western Hungary and Spodnji Lanovž in Celje, Slovene Styria). The remaining part of the Spodnji Lanovž hoard, discovered already in 1850 and exclusively composed of amber beads, is entirely published here for the first time. Two late La Tene bronze objects, found at Aquileia, a palmette hook of the Vinji Vrh type and a fibula of the Beletov vrt type, probably came here as the result of relations between the people living at Aquileia and the Celts of the southeastern Alpine region. Glass beads of the Adria type, almost certainly made in Northern Italy, from where they were brought along the Amber Route even to the Celts in the territory of modern Bohemia (Stradonice) and Moravia (Pteni), date of the same period.