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discovered, however, in archaeological complexes assigned to the medium and recent tumular period272.

In addition to the above-mentioned bronze pieces, other small objects, often preserved only fragmented, were discovered in other different complexes. We are referring to fragments originating, probably, from two rings with single or double spiral termination, out of which one was found in complex 200 (PI. 23/11) and another one in complex 123 (PL 17/1). A bronze wire ring with spiral endings was found near the fingers of a deceased, in a tomb assigned to the latest funerals taking place in the necropolis of Nizné Mysl’a (Slovakia) assigned to the Otomani Culture.273 The discovery represents one of the earliest confirmations of the use of such an object with multiple connotations (magic, representation of social position, respectively of the membership group)274. Pieces of this type appear, however, more frequently in settlements, graves and deposits of the Carpathian Basin, during the late Bronze Age.275 Among the metal pieces recovered from the ditch (cx. 200) filling, we mention a spiral made of bronze wire (PI. 23/14) with an outside diameter of approximately 2 cm, as well as small fragments of raw bronze, fragments of bronze sheet or wire (PI. 23/15). From complex 130 we mention a tubular piece made by rolling a piece of bronze sheet (PL 21/1). While researching complex 14, the rod of a bronze needle was recovered (PL 4/7).

272 Kacsó 1999, p. 101.

273 Olexa 1992, p. 197, Pl. VI/2. Both types were discovered in the necropolic of Tápé (in the south-east of Hungary), dated to Reinecke B2- D (early) - Blischke 1997, p. 325-326.

274 Blischke 1997, p. 334.

275 Kovács, 1970, p. 28, PI. 3/6; Kemenczei 1984, Pl. VI/24, XXXV/19, 21; Petrescu-Dâmboviţa 1977, p. 99, PI. 165/25; Ignat 1984, Pl. XII/8; Bejinariu 2005, p. 58, Pl. VII/5.

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