Kisné Cseh Julianna – Kemecsi Lajos szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 7. (Tata, 2000)

Ilon Gábor–Költő László: Middle Bronze age artifacts from Szent Vid of Velem

Middle Bronze age artifacts from Szent Vid of Velem Another of the Tolnanémedi-type (VIL Velem) artifact Sortiment? Gábor Ilon-László Költő During the classification procedure of the Velem-Szent-Vid artifact Sortiment, which was once put into the Pre-historical Collection of the Savaria Museum before 1943, several of the items have been noted especially those referring to a „set of treasure". In Kálmán Miske's monograph (1907) such an artifact (i.e. a swallowtailed pendant) is disposed. Amália Mozsolics recorded the questioned artifacts in the inventories as from Velem (see illustration No. 1) in 1941, which items were again recorded in 1954. The inventory book previously recorded by Vilmos Lipp (see illustration No. 2) includes artifacts with a feature alike, however these are neither in correspondance with the aforementioned ones, nor from the settlement of Velem, in this way no confusion may be mentioned. A wheel pendant, a 2 horseshoe pendants, 12 anchor or swallow-tailed pendants certainly belong to this "treaure", furthermore bronze lamella cones (i.e. tutulus) and bronze spiral pearls (see boards I-III) may be attached to such depots on the basis of typology. The mug and dagger of the Dolny Peter type demonstrated in points 1 -2, on board IV represent this era, or the following Cosider period's artifacts from Szent Vid, as artifacts of the same age from the site were previously published (e.g. by T. Kemenczei). The „treasure" constitutes a complex commemoration of the Transdanubian Incrusted Pottery Culture from the Bronze Age, yet it was discovered out of the range of the expansion of such culture. The X-ray emission test of the wheel pendant and the swallow-tailed pendants were also completed, of which results were compared to those of the Tata depot recently published. In order to sum up, the following may be concluded: 1. the correlation of the copper and tin content (see illustration No. 5) refers to the fact of conscious alloyage, whilst the eventuality of antimony content compared to the copper (illustration No. 6) rises the probability of the coincidental use of the so-called complex metals. This fact is inter alia supported by the tests performed on the correlation of tin and antimony content, in other words the quantity of the two components are effectively independent 80