Hoard from Lovas

Hoard from Lovas

This hoard, found in the Slavonian village Lovas, represents a real treasury of jewellery from the Middle Bronze Age. It consists of five hundred objects. In the small clay amphora there were 22 tendrils made of golden wire while the rest of the hoard contents was made of bronze: bracelets, rings, decorative slates, metal pieces, stitch-work, pendants, pincers, a dagger, axes and lumps of crude bronze. All these items were originally buried in the ground in a large clay dish that has not been preserved.

The golden tendrils from the Lovas hoard were probably used as decoration for the hair. However, the regularity in the weight relations of the tendrils point out that they might have had another role, as carriers of units of the value of a definite pre-monetary trade-exchange chain.