N. Kósa Judit - Szablyár Péter: Underground Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)
The Remete Ravine
■ The Upper Cave fiíndó on the first day. The archaeologists could feel that they were treading in the footsteps of prehistoric man... Having clambered through the rolling stones covering the floor of the narrow gap between the two stretches of the corridor, the researchers reached a io metre long chamber, where they found copper age (2,500 B.C.) pots on the floor. As they carefully proceeded with the exploration of the filling, the archaeologists found that its stratification was deficient with some of the layers having been washed away by the waters of what was once a spring cave. The fourth layer was intact and free from later deposits. Preserved here were the bone remains of Ice Age animals (troglodytic bears, rhinoceroses, rock goats, musk oxen). At that point the only signs suggesting the presence of prehistoric man were remnants of charcoal left behind by burning fires. Fragments of a giant hind’s antlers and the plentiful remains of other animals killed by prehistoric stalkers evoked the hunting fields of the last pre-glacial period. On the thirtieth day of the exploration the first stone tools made of radiolite from around Dorog were found. The next sensational find was discovered at a depth of 2.4 metres, in a spot within less than 20 centimetres of the first stone tool - three neighbouring incisors of Homo neanderthalemii! After the remains of a Neanderthal found in the Subalyuk cave in the Bükk mountains in 1932, teeth that once 7
