N. Kósa Judit - Szablyár Péter: Underground Buda - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2002)

The Remete Ravine

■ entrance to the cave in the ravine

belonged to a prehistoric man from the same period had now been found in the immediate vicinity of Hungary's capital.

The analysis of plentiful animal bone fragments (remains of wood grouse, white grouse, wolves, foxes, brown bears, troglodyte bears, ermines, badgers, hyenas, troglodytic lions, arctic hare, mammoths, wild horses, hairy rhinoceroses, hind deer, reindeer, giant deer, rock goats, musk oxen, aurochs) proved beyond doubt that what had been found in the cave were the remains of prey animals. Thus the Upper Cave must have been a hunters' lair.

The archaeologists did not even have to dig to make the next sensational discovery. Lying on one another on a ledge of the inner chamber, were two enormous eye teeth of a troglodyte bear with an extra large, petrified sea shell (Glycymem obovata) next to it. It was on the same "shelf" that our prehistoric ancestor kept the "extras" he had found during the hunts. But this small cave held another surprise, and not a little one either. In the filling that separates the two half chambers, the diggers’ shovel turned over a 62-piece family treasure-trove from the bronze age. The find, which was buried around 1,500 B.C., included a priestess’s diadem, a crescent brooch made of bronze plates,

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