In the summer of 1998, protective excavations were carried out during the construction of a car park on Jelenov klanec in Kranj. A hoard consisting of more than 400 bronze objects was discovered in a natural niche under a conglomerate wall: weapons, tools, jewellery, sheet metal and ingots as well as iron slag and iron ore. The objects in the hoard date from the 10th to 8th century BC, when they were probably also buried. The chemical composition of the objects from the hoard, especially the shaft-hole axes, shows relatively high proportions of lead and, in a few cases, iron in the alloy.
Numerous contemporary pottery finds and two bronze pins were discovered in the settlement layers near the hoard, and the skeletal grave of a newborn was found not far away.Poleti leta 1998 so pri urejanju parkirišča na Jelenovem klancu v Kranju izvedli zaščitna izkopavanja. V naravni niši pod konglomeratno steno so naleteli na depo, ki ga sestavlja več kot 400 bronastih predmetov – orožje, orodje, nakit, pločevina in ingoti ter železova žlindra in železova ruda. Predmeti v depoju so iz obdobja med 10. in 8. st. pr. n. št., ko so bili verjetno tudi odloženi. Kemična sestava predmetov, predvsem uhatih sekir, v leguri izkazuje razmeroma velike deleže svinca in v nekaj primerih tudi železa.
V bližini depoja so v naselbinskih plasteh odkrili številne sočasne keramične najdbe in bronasti igli, nedaleč stran pa je bil tudi sočasen skeletni grob novorojenčka
