2. 12. 1943 Bronze bracelets from Kychová

About twenty-five bronze bracelets were buried in the Kychová valley. When this happened is still unknown. The treasure was found in 1943. The bracelets date back to the Late Bronze Age.

The jewellery was found in 1943, but the discovery did not become known until four years later. According to experts, the bracelets date from sometime between 1000 and 750 BC, the aforementioned Late Bronze Age.

The bracelets were written about in the magazine Naše Valašsko in 1947. "In September 1947, Jaroslav Babica, a teacher, taught a history class about prehistoric man and excavations in the second class of the Hovězí burgher school. The pupil Josef Maňák volunteered that his father had also dug up some old rings on the hill a few years ago and that they still had them at home in a shed somewhere," the magazine said.
The teacher asked the pupil if he would bring one of the rings to school. The school principal identified the ring as a beautiful bronze bracelet from the Lusatian culture.
"He questioned the pupil at length and asked him to bring all the rings they had at home to school, with his father's permission, as they were, uncleaned and with remnants of clay. The pupil did indeed bring twenty more rings, the last two being retained by his father. The following day, the headmaster went to the Kychová valley to personally check the circumstances directly with the finder, to record the details and to photograph the situation," wrote the newspaper Naško Valašsko.
The bracelets belong to the culture of the Lusatian ash fields. Specifically, the younger Silesian phase, which archaeologists refer to as the Silesian culture. This people were found over a vast territory extending north to the Baltic, west almost to the central Polabie and eastwards into the Povislia region, and then northeastern Bohemia, central and eastern Moravia and northern Slovakia.

"It was a depot, i.e. a mass storage of things, for example, of a merchant on the merchant's route, or a hiding place for valuables. Or it could also have been votive items, i.e. offerings to now unknown deities," said Ladislav Štěpánek, an archaeologist at the Vsetín Museum.

The bracelets were located under a large stone, which was surrounded by other smaller fragments. The objects were apparently used during a ritual. The bracelets are engraved with fine decoration.

Sources: www.huslenky.cz, Our Wallachia, www.denik.cz