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Funerary and settlement areas of the Middle and Late Bronze Age in the vicinity of Březnice near Bechyně. The article contains information about new funerary and settlement sites dating to the Bronze Age which have been discovered in the surroundings of the well-known Late Bronze Age settlement with ditches near Březnice in the Bechyně region. Three sites disturbed by ploughing have been identified which can be labeled as flat cemeteries from the early phases of the Late Bronze Age (Br D - Ha A1) while one of them also contained settlement features (e.g. an oven). Another site yielded a solitary ceramic amphora dating back to the Middle Bronze Age. Two hitherto undated barrow cemeteries near Březnice have also yielded the first finds indicative of the Middle and Late Bronze Age. The above flat cemeteries represent the first evidence for this type of Late Bronze Age monuments in the Bechyně region, but their state of preservation also reveals that such sites are often devastated and damaged by deep ploughing. The analyzed cemeteries have also yielded, among others, the first Late Bronze Age glass beads known from South Bohemia. The newly discovered and partly examined funerary sites in the cadastral area of Březnice have significantly enriched our knowledge about the burial rite of the Urnfield period in South Bohemia. From the viewpoint of quantity, these discoveries increase the number of known graves by roughly one fifth, and the number of known pit/surface graves by more than one half. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides basic information about a newly discovered barrow funerary component which is datable to the early medieval period based on surface survey. The site consists of at least 25 barrows arranged in regular rows. This until recently unknown barrow cemetery supplements our knowledge about a remarkable concentration of early medieval barrow cemeteries in the area of the Ševětín highlands which has no parallels in our territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several medieval sites and isolated finds have been recently discovered in the Bechyně region over the recent years, thanks to intensive prospecting activities. The topic of this paper is a basic overview and a brief evaluation of them. The discovery of the first flatland settlements, which augmented the settlement structure consisting only of barrow cemeteries and several hillforts, is of great importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]