Apart from some exceptional bronze items, assemblages that confirm the irretrievability of the objects due to specific site circumstances (e.g. deep abysses), little remains to substantiate the unequivocal irretrievability of the deposited objects for the vast majority of the Bronze Age hoards. If we are to understand Bronze Age hoards as votive offerings, then their supposed irretrievability should be taken for granted. Can we therefore obtain some indirect confirmation of their irretrievability? Some characteristics of the Late Bronze Age hoards from the south-eastern Alpine region attest to their irretrievability indirectly (e.g. particularities of their stratigraphy, their structured composition). The case of recently acquired hoards and single finds from the Bled vicinity in the Slovene Alpine area is presented with regard to their extraordinary density and the presence of two golden appliques. Another Late Bronze Age settlement hoard from Dragomelj in central Slovenia is presented with regard to its internal organisation. The correlation between the stratigraphic position of objects in the hoard and the degree of their fragmentation lead to the conclusion that the objects were taken out of the hoard and were redeposited in it. The irretrievability of the deposited objects is therefore far from certain.
