Pohřební areal ze střední doby bronzové z Nymburka a problematika struktur tvořených kruhovými žlaby v Čechách / The Middle Bronze Age burial area in Nymburk and the structure of round ditches in Bohemia / La zone funéraire de l'âge du Bronze moyen à Nymburk et la structure des fossés circulaires en Bohême

The paper presents an evaluation of the round burial area from the Middle Bronze Age discovered in 2008 during a rescue archaeological excavation in Nymburk in central Bohemia. The unique quality of the burial area lies in the fact that it is the first registered case in Bohemia in which burials are deposited directly in a round ditch, not in the central burial chamber in the space demarcated by this ditch. The paper likewise addresses the interpretation of features created by round ditches that are usually reconstructed as barrows. Although some of these round structures could be remnants of original barrows demarcated by ditches or palisades, certain construction elements and other evidence suggests that many of them could in fact have been round burial areas on flat ground whose internal space was not covered by a continual mound.