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In the article, new isolated Bronze Age metal finds are published which have been documented in the territory of South Bohemia over the last about five years and which have not been published anywhere else. These are 137 bronze or copper artefacts from 128 sites which are dateable to all chronological phases of the Bronze Age. Some of them are quite unique in South Bohemia, with analogies in other Central European regions. Several artefacts were subjected to spectral analysis in order to determine their chemical composition. A spearhead from Horažďovice was also subjected to traceological analysis. In addition to an enrichment of the typological spectrum of artefacts, these discoveries in some cases also proved human activities in regions regarded as uninhabited or only sporadically utilized. Thus the presented article clearly shows the importance and significance of documentation and rescue of these unique finds. Their interpretive value is lower than that of those made in settlement, funerary or hoard contexts, but they are definitely not without importance for our knowledge of prehistoric settlement and human activities in the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contribution contains a list of newly identified and so far unrecorded burial mound grounds dating from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages, thus complementing the earlier inventories for the districts of Písek and Strakonice. It is based on continuous field surveys in the years 1980 to 2018, as of December 31, 2018 (part 1 and 2). In several cases, it is also complemented with a description of the current state of preservation of both earlier and newly recorded sites (part 3 and 4). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper provides an evaluation of all available data on prehistoric hillfort of U Sv. Anny in the Týn nad Vltavou region. The site has been known for more than a century, however, local prehistoric finds have not been processed and published in detail yet. A precise plan of the site has been created with the help of airborne laser scanning and recent prospecting activities have yielded artefacts enabling to make the dating more precise and to broaden the time span when the hillfort was inhabited during the Bronze Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]