N. Kósa Judit - Szablyár Péter: Underground Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
The Devil's Ditch: Buda's rapid brook imprisoned
a bronze bracelet, 25 bronze buttons, two bronze axes, 17 amber beads, golden hair rings and golden spiral beads. (The fabulous find is held in the Budapest History Museum.) During the excavation, which lasted for several months, it was concluded that for a short, two to three week, period in the autumn the sun shone into this niche, no matter how far away from the entrance it was. This natural light is most likely to have been used when the wealth of the bronze-age tribal chief or head of a clan was hidden... Unfortunately this fabled little niche is also a home for the homeless today. The Devil’s Ditch: Buda's rapid brook imprisoned The water coursing down Ördög-árok springs in the Nagykovácsi Basin turns southeast and runs between the Kopaszerdő Peak and Remete Hill, then breaks through the Remete Gorge and arrives in Hűvösvölgy. Between the Game Park and Hárs Hill it flows on a bed paved with stone slabs and, having passed a mud trap at Hidász utca, it continues its journey underground. In the past centuries the brook had numerous names: in Turkish times it ■ The Devil'ó Ditch on a map by Vasquez, 1837 9
