Archaeological research in the town hall courtyard conducted in 1996-1997 disclosed parts of three or four urban plots with the economic hinterland of burgher houses that preceded a renaissance town hall built in the mid-16th century. The research yielded a large number of artefacts that were studied as examples of medieval and modern-age material culture. The paper focuses on artefacts divided, in terms of material, into medieval and modern-age utility ceramics (kitchenware, tableware and storage vessels), modern-age ceramic tobacco pipes, stove tiles ceramics, objects of glass, iron and non-ferrous metals, and coins. The series of artefacts provides the first comprehensive insight into the socioeconomic life of urban households in České Budějovice in the Middle Ages and the modern age.

Cílem příspěvku je rozbor jedinečně zachované dřevěné konstrukce, která byla objevena při záchranném archeologickém výzkumu parcely v Radniční ulici čp. 138/11 v roce 1993. Dřevěná konstrukce byla interpretována jako základ roubené stavby nadzemního domu, který se nacházel v uliční čáře při domovém průčelí. Rozbor keramiky z výplně objektu datuje tuto stavbu do první poloviny 14. století. V příspěvku jsou hodnoceny další pozůstatky dřevěných konstrukcí nalezené při archeologických výzkumech a stavebně historických průzkumech v historickém jádru města. Je rekonstruován také prostorový vývoj zástavby na dotčené parcele a řešena otázka vztahu dřevěné stavby k dalším archeologicky prozkoumaným objektům.

Abstract The collection of ancient coins of the Palacký University in Olomouc is recently preserved in the department of history there. It is very likely that the collection was founded sometimes between the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century – no details are known about it and the collection became the university property evidently after 1946. The core of the Olomouc collection is represented by denarii dating back to 154–74 BC (cat. nos. 3–69). Only individual pieces of the earlier issues (cat. nos. 1–2) and the later issues (cat. nos. 70–72) are present here. Publication of this collection could be accepted as a small contribution to documentation of the physically verified material of the mentioned period. Parallelly, it is an interesting testimony of the collecting activities in Olomouc at the break of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Deutsch Jahrndorf (Burgenland, Austria) hoard was discovered in 1855. It contained Bratislava Celtic coinage – gold denominations and silver tetradrachms of the Biatec group. Altogether, 163 coins have been studied either by autopsy or from their earlier publications; originally however, they were surely more numerous. Although the treasure was discovered south of the Danube, 15 km away from the Bratislava oppidum acropolis, there is no doubt about its direct association with this site. Its contents provide a unique insight into the production of gold denominations, both anepigraphic and with the legends BIATEC or BIAT. Silver tetradrachms of the Biatec group include the majority of known die combinations. The Deutsch Jahrndorf hoard represents a unique source for better understanding the Bratislava coin production. Based on our present state of knowledge of the late La Tène chronology, the hoard was probably concealed in the third quarter of the 1st century BC; a more precise date cannot be established. New discoveries of Roman style constructions on the Bratislava oppidum acropolis help us better understand the phenomenon of relations between the Roman Republic and local Celtic elites; the detailed study of the hoard in question contributes to this topic from the numismatic point of view.

The article is focused on one unpublished ¼-stater (1.84 g) of the Athena head / four-legged animal type. The coin has been recently documented among collectors, and no finding provenance is known. Based on the typological and metrological analyses, it is possible to take hypothetically in mind the Bohemian territory as the place of origin. It could be another 1/4-stater from the group of the so-called Bohemian local series. The hypothesis must be confirmed or disproved by further authentic finds. From the relative chronological point of view, the coin could be classified under the numismatic horizon A2, i.e. in the second half of the 3rd century BC.