Folia archeologica 47.
István Vörös: A Denevér úti kovabánya agancsleletei (Budapest-Farkasrét)
ANTLER FINDS IN THE. FLINT MINE 87 б (А., В.) remains belong to the lower part of the antler, 26 ones (C.) belong to the middle part and 40 ones (D., E.) belong to the upper part of the antler. Further 15 crown parts F4 belong to this last group. Had the complete antlers been cut up within the flint mine different antler parts should be present in the assemblage in nearly equal proportion (number) whereas it is the crown which occurs in greatest number (D., E., F4) and considering this phenomenon the following missing antler parts can be supposed: part of antler find pieces missing pieces % crown 55 beam 50 5 9,5 upper part of the beam 40 15 27,2 middle part of the beam 34 21 38,2 lower part of the beam 6 49 89,0 The extremely uneven frequency of different antler parts as well as the great number of removed main tines suggest that the primary cutting up of the complete antlers was not made on the spot. That find assemblage which was collected in the mine is already a "selected" one. The majority of finds, however, are not mining tools - as we shall prove later. If the cutting up of the antlers was made in the mining field the absence of typical mining tools (e.g. mauls, picks, expandig tools, etc.) there makes us to think that they were used somewhere else. The position of the antler parts: parts n left right ? parts side side beam +crown D, E 40 19 15 6 beam C. 26 13 11 2 antler beam A, B. 6 5 1 72 37 27 8 trez tine F3 50 23 16 11 brow tine F 1 34 16 15 3 84 39 31 14 The fragments of min. 40 antler pairs were found in the Denevér street flint mine. The frequency of the occurrence of different antler parts is extremely heterogeneous. The most conspicuous is that the lower antler beam part (A, B.) of the 66 beams (C.) and of beams with crown (D., E.) are missing. 4.3. The "age of life" of the antlers - their distribution according to age-groups. Already during the excavation it had attracted Gábori, Miklós attention that the antler remains were conspicuously small and that the quantity of forking crown tines was relatively large. During the first survey of the finds the author had the same impression. After the study of the antler remains and especially after the comparison of their dimensions with those of NADLE' s trophy qualification data it became clear that 60 per cent of the finds originated from the antlers of young stags.
