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The bronze hoard was discovered on the territory of Mîndrești village, Telenești district, in 1968. It was identified accidentally by a group of students from the village school, and the materials later came to the attention of specialists at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences. According to documentary records, the hoard was composed of ten pieces: four socketed axes (celts), a dagger fragment, a sword fragment, a sickle, a winged axe, an adze-axe, and a chain consisting of four links.
Currently, of the mentioned assemblage, six objects are preserved in the collections of the National Museum of History of Moldova: two socketed axes (celts), the winged axe, the adze-axe, the dagger fragment, and the chain made of four links.- Socketed axe (celt) with one loop. Dimensions: Length - 10.2 cm; Weight - 186 g.
- Socketed axe (celt) with one frontal loop. Dimensions: Length - 8.4 cm; Width: 33-46 mm; Weight - 124 g.
- Winged axe. Dimensions: Length - 14.0 cm; Width - 2.5-3.4 cm; Weight - 285 g.
- Adze-axe. Dimensions: Length - 14.8 cm; Width - 2.3-5.0 cm; Weight - 286 g.
- Dagger fragment. Dimensions: Length - 16.5 cm; Blade length - 9.8 cm; Blade width - 2.8 cm; Weight - 81 g.
- Chain formed of four links. Dimensions: Length - 17.1 cm; Link diameter - 3.8; Weight - 32 g.The bronze hoard of Mîndrești is important due to the association of objects that find analogies in the regional repertoire with pieces that show clear analogies in Central Europe and the Carpathian Basin. The assemblage reflects a zone of contact and interaction where metallic forms of different origins and traditions circulated and were integrated into the repertoire of local communities.
Chronologically, the bronze hoard of Mîndrești is attributed to the Early Hallstatt period - HaA1, being dated to 1200-1100 BC.

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Exhibitions

„Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania”

September 19th – October 25th, 2013

On September 19th, 2013, on the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the National Museum of History of Moldova in collaboration with the Mineralogy Museum Baia Mare opened the exhibition „Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania.

The exhibition presented for the first time to Republic of Moldova's public 120 splendid mineral samples from the collection of the Mineralogy Museum Baia Mare, the only regional museum with this profile in Romania and the holder of one of the biggest regional collections of minerals or „mine flowers" from Europe.

The mine flower represent a mineral sample cropped from underground, monomineral or formed of more minerals, having special esthetic qualities due to mineral/minerals crystals growing together, color, forms, exceptional sizes of some component crystals.

The mineral's beauty and size raised human interest from oldest times as the samples were extracted, brought to surface and preserved in private collections or exhibited in museums.

The big number of mineral sample found around Baia Mare town offers the region the right to be called the richest holder of such beauties in entire Romania, being well known internationally as well.

The exhibited minerals are of unique and fascinating beauty due to their forms, brightness or their opaque surface, spines and soft surfaces, unique color or rainbow showing up from within. These include varieties of quartz, calcite, rhodochrosite, marcasite, gypsum etc.

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The Bronze Hoard of Mîndrești

„Mine flowers from Maramureș, Romania”

September 19th – October 25th, 2013

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