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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">AB</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Archaeologia Baltica</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2351-6534</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1392-5520</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>KU</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">AB_32_03_ROZENTALE</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15181/ab.v32i0.2754</article-id>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>A newly discovered hoard of Bronze Age artefacts from western Latvia</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Rozentāle</surname>
            <given-names>Inna</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:href="mailto:inna.rozentale@kuldiga.lv">inna.rozentale@kuldiga.lv</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_AB_aff_000"/>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_AB_aff_000">Kuldīga District Museum, Collections and Research Department, Kuldīga, Latvia</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author.</corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <volume>32</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>47</fpage>
      <lpage>65</lpage>
      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <day>16</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>16</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2025</year>
      </pub-date>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>29</day>
          <month>09</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="rev-recd">
          <day>20</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>12</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2025</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
        <copyright-holder>Klaipėda University</copyright-holder>
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      <abstract>
        <p>The article discusses a hoard of Late Bronze Age artefacts recently discovered near the River Venta in western Latvia. This is only the seventh Bronze Age hoard from Latvia. The find consists of eight to nine whole and fragmentary bronze artefacts. This publication describes the circumstances of discovery and presents an analysis of the artefacts, their chronology and metal composition, seeking to place the hoard within the general context of Late Bronze Age Europe. The objects constituting the Liedikas hoard have been conserved and are held at Kuldīga District Museum.</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>Late Bronze Age</kwd>
        <kwd>hoard</kwd>
        <kwd>contacts</kwd>
        <kwd>River Venta</kwd>
        <kwd>Latvia</kwd>
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