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27 Feb 2008 The golden button was in the skull
Categories: Finds and rescue research in the Czech Republic , Calendar
Archaeologists discovered an extraordinary and well-crafted gold button fourteen years ago in the locality of Na Valách in Staré Město. It was hidden in the skull of a young woman who belonged to the family of a prominent great man.
The archaeologists discovered that they had stumbled upon a truly extraordinary artefact when they cleaned the button. They said it was indeed an extraordinarily crafted piece. According to archaeologist Luděk Galuška from the Moravian Museum in Brno, gold buttons were an attribute of the powerful. The object dates back to the period of the Great Moravian Empire.
"Gold had an immeasurable value at that time and was owned only by people from the highest classes. That is why copper or silver buttons are found much more often. The young woman whose remains were found at Valy was certainly a member of the family of a prominent great man," the archaeologist added.
Together with colleagues, he has previously uncovered two thousand graves. However, they have only discovered copper or silver buttons. This is the first truly golden Great Moravian jewellery in three decades. The other ornaments found were "only" gilded.
Interestingly, the archaeologists found the grave of a young woman in a site that had already been explored twice. According to Galuška, however, the grave was located exactly on the border between the areas where the earlier excavations had been carried out.
We also wrote about the Na Valách site and the discoveries here:
https://www.lovecpokladu.cz/home/30-7-2009-unikatni-nastroj-na-vyrobu-zlatych-sperku-8741
In addition, archaeologists also dug up a man's grave under the young woman's grave. It also dates back to the period of the Great Moravian Empire. However, the graves have nothing in common, the male one was created several decades earlier.
Galuska also said that by gradually uncovering the local burial site, they found that people were literally driven out by the dead. "They were abandoning their own houses just to expand the burial site, thus the settlement was disappearing," he noted.
The artifacts found at Na Valách are on display at the Monument of Great Moravia, where a new exhibition was just being created. The memorial is one of the cultural monuments of the Czech Republic and is located in the Old Town.
Sources:
www.idobryden.cz, www.idnes.cz, www.denik.cz
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