M. Járó - L. Költő szerk.: Archaeometrical research in Hungary (Budapest, 1988)
Analysis - BAKOS Miklós, BAUMANN Miklós, GEGUS Ernő: Results of archaeometric examination of prehistoric copper artifacts found in Gorzsa
Table 1 List of artifacts examined Item Invertory number Artifact Mass, g 1 70.20.2 Gorzsa-Cukormajor stray find, two fragments of a bracelet: 5 whorls 1 whorl restored restored 60.90 9.29 70.19 2 70.20.3 Gorzsa— Cukormajor stray find, two fragments of a bracelet: 2 whorls half whorl restored restored 23.14 4.54 27.68 3 4 5 70.20.4 Gorzsa-Cukormajor stray find, fragment a fragment b fragment c restored restored restored 0.760 0.543 0.275 1.578 6 1 Gorzsa, grave 11, furniture 3, bracelet of 5 whorls not cleaned 75.4 7 ? Gorzsa, grave 11, furniture 4, bracelet of 3 whorls not cleaned 20.8 8 ? Gorzsa, grave 17, furniture 4, bracelet of 3 whorls not cleaned 63.0 9 ? Gorzsa, grave 17, furniture 6, bead of a necklace not cleaned 0.58 10 ? Gorzsa, grave 18, furniture 16, bead of a necklace not cleaned 1.60 Age and lays special stress on the total absence of tin in a find containing 98.36% copper. Much [7] listed further copper finds from the early Metal Age found in Hungary; these finds contained neither tin nor silver. Otto and Witter [8 ] reported the results of analysis of 23 artifacts made from pure copper and found in Hungary. Additionally, Junghans et al. [9 ] presented the results of analysis of some artifacts made from very pure copper and found in Hungary, three of them are helical bracelets [10]. The quantity of native copper in Hungary could not have been negligible: Âberg [11 ] and Childe [12] are of the opinion that the native copper of Hungary played an important part in the bronze production of Central Europe as recently as in the Middle Ages. On the basis of analyses of the artifacts examined it cannot be proved that they originated in the Mátra or the Gömör mountains. Certainly, the trace element content of the artifacts is very similar to one of the prehistoric axes found in Kápolna and Aszód (near to the Gömör mountains). But this fact says not too much in the case of native copper. The copper could have originated in Transylvania too, although we are unaware of any surface occurrence in that place.
