Folia archeologica 47.

István Vörös: A Denevér úti kovabánya agancsleletei (Budapest-Farkasrét)

ANTLER FINDS IN THE. FLINT MINE 89 dimensions which is over the present Hungarian (national total) average.

7 The Hungarian average value for the circumference of the lower part of the beam is 14,79 cm

8, the same value of the large antlers in the Denevér street is 155-160 mm. The average value of the circumference of the upper part of the beam is 13,54 for recent antlers while for the antlers of the Denevér street mine it is 150160 mm. Main tines The length of the lower curve, the vertical basis diameter and the circumference of the basis of main tines are on the Tables 6, 7 and 8, respectively. Brow tine Fl - 34 pieces They are short. 25 pieces of them are straight, curved towards their end: 8 pieces are curved already from their bases. The length of the brow tines of middleaged antlers is 250 - 350 mm, the Hungarian average is 34,74 cm.

9 Bez tine F2 - 13 pieces On two ones of the five juvenile antlers the bez tine starts low while on one piece there is an process of bez tine. Among separate bez tines 11 pieces are long, straight and curved at their ends. Trez tine F3 - 50 pieces On the two juvenile antlers the trez tines start deeply (190-220 mm). The tines are curved. The trez tine is short, 230 - 325 mm on tne middle-aged antlers. The Hungarian average is 35,18 cm.

10 Crown The crown is the most characteristic and at the same time the most differentiated part of the antler both in individual animals and within the red deer population. It can be characterized by the number, length of its tines and by the so-called crown-shape. The forking or two tines (double) end of the beam still does not be considered to be a crown, only the one in the stage of three tines (triple).

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1 On the basis of the position, juncture of the crown tines related to each other the following crown types are determined: hand-shaped or digitated (palmshaped), cup-shaped, shovel-shaped. Forking beam is characteristic of the (2. and 3.) antlers of young, 3 and 4 years stags . The 5. antler, being in the stage of eight points

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2 is already regarded as a defect and should be sorted out from the game stock. The triple stage crown is characteristic of the (4. and 5.) antlers of: 5 and 6 years old stags.

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3 In the Denevér street flint mine the numbers of tines and shapes of 43 crowns can be characterized. Forking or two tines crown - 24 pieces Forking part at the end of the beam of a juvenile antler: 9 pieces; forking crown of a middle-aged antler: 15 pieces. Length values of forking crown tines: first tine n - 1

6 23 - 285 mm 5 23 - 86 11 110-285 second tine n - 8 35 - 135 mm 5 35 - 70 3 110-135 7 BánFatah 1986. 8 Bán-Fatali 1986, 115. 9 Bán-Fatali 1986, 99. 1

0 Bán-Fatali 1986, 103. 1

1 Szederjei 1965, 68. 1

2 Széchenyi 1948, 36-37. 1

3 Bán - Fatali 1986, 139.