Nalazi prahistorijskih ostava na području Istre

Abstract

The paper deals with prehistoric hoards found to date on the tcrritory of Istria. The oldest is a set of copper axes from Boljun. The Late Bronze Age hoards of axes from Oprtalj, Baredine near Brtonigla and Monte Maesta (Debeljak) near Stinjan are ali lost and have been only partly published. Closely examined and catalogued are the hoard with iron objeets from Kosmati Kostel, near the village of Opatija (municipality of Buzet), containing spearheads. machaira fragments and parts of vvinged axes. and from Pula-Tivoli. consisting of bronze and iron weaponry (bronze spearheads, a fragment of a bronze axe, iron spearheads and machairae, spits etc.) and amorphous bronze and iron lumps. The latter hoards are compared with those from Tržišče near Cerknica and Gradišče near Trnovo and similarly datcd to circa 600 B. C. or in the second half of the 7lh century (stage III of the development of Istrian group).