An Early Iron Age burial from Dobor (northern Bosnia)

The paper presents a chance find, designated as a grave assemblage from the site of Dobor near Modriča in northern Bosnia. The assemblage consists of three bronze bracelets, a bronze pendant, eleven bronze calotte-shaped buttons, and a fragmented ceramic vessel. The bronze pendant of the Ghidici type provides a basis for dating the deposited objects to the first half or middle of the eighth century BC at the latest, i.e. to the Ha C1 of the Central-European chronology. The micro-location of the Early Iron Age burial is directly linked with the settlement site of Doborski Brijeg and the excavated Late Bronze and Early Iron Age layers. The fragments of pottery decorated in the Basarabi style suggest the regional importance of the settlement as a possible intermediary in the exchange of cultural goods and influences coming from neighbouring regions, primarily Slavonia and Syrmia (Srem/Srijem), along the Bosna river valley.