The main cause of this thesis is to find out where depositions are found in the coastal area of the western part of the Netherlands during the Bronze Age, 2000-800 BC. Are there depositions in this...Show moreThe main cause of this thesis is to find out where depositions are found in the coastal area of the western part of the Netherlands during the Bronze Age, 2000-800 BC. Are there depositions in this area? which relation do they have to there landscape and are there changes visible over time? First a catalog has been made with all the deposition finds made in North- and South-Holland. In this catalog different features of the objects are added, in total the catalog consists of 91 objects. With the information of the catalog, different distribution maps are created. The maps show how many objects and where the objects are located during different periods of the Bronze Age. Each object has been looked at individually. For some objects there was a description from the patina available, it shows if the object came out of a dry or wet context. If there was no description of the patina, the place of the find on the paleogeographic map was examined to find out if it was found in a dry or wet ground. If an object comes out of a wet context it is typical for a deposition. A dry context is mostly seen as a 'lost' object. More than half of the finds are found in a wet context, this means that the objects are deliberately deposited, maybe because of ritual reasons. During the Early Bronze Age few objects are deposited diffusedly. During the Middle Bronze Age the amount of deposits increased excessive, they are found clustered in the coastal area of North- and South-Holland and in the salt marsh area of West-Frisian. In the Late Bronze Age people were still depositing a lot but not as much as in the Middle Bronze Age, they deposited objects very scattered through the west part of the Netherlands. Compared to earlier research in other parts of the Netherlands, deposits are found more in the coastal dune area then in the peat areas. Wet contexts are at both places the most favorable place to deposit and the axe is the most deposited object.Show less