Kisné Cseh Julianna – Kemecsi Lajos szerk.: Komárom – Esztergom Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 7. (Tata, 2000)

Ilon Gábor–Költő László: Middle Bronze age artifacts from Szent Vid of Velem

from each other, therefore they were not put in to substitute each other in the alloy. The amount of antimony (where it is capable to be measured) refers to the presence of a contaminating/attendant element, rather to a composition metal. 2. comparing the frequency diagrams of the Velem and Tata groups' components it turns out that their places of origin may differ. Both the absolute quantity of the basic metal (copper) and its rate in comparison to the principal composition metal (tin) results a graph with two (incidentally three) peaks (see illustrations No. 3-4), which indicates that their elaboration demanded different raw materials. The artifacts found in Tata are divided into further two groups based on the principal components. 3. the dendrograph of the Velem artifacts (illustration No. 8) refers to a homogeneous material, based on which one may take the right to assume that the tested swallow-tailed pendants with one exception (illustration No. 90.) were in fact made of the same material. Modus vivendi the size also diverts. At the same time, the wheel pendant differs as well, although said difference does not bear such significance that comparing to the content of the Velem artifacts (illustration No. 9.) and the Tata patterns, it remains in a group different from the Tata ones. 4. full comparison of the two artifact divisons conspicuously refer to materials from different places of origin, on the other hand no further data is available whether a metallurgist workshop was working in Velem or not during this period. Their relationship to the "treasure" may not be excluded for another reason, since Miske described several depots in his monography on foraged artifacts. As a consequence, one may conclude that both the internal comparison amongst said artifacts kept in Szombathely, and with other pieces from places of longer distances confirm the assumption that a closed and correlated essemble has been found, thus it may be titled as the VII. Velem artifact Sortiment (as indicated above in the title). Following the above, Tibor Kovács' approach (1999) may definitely be questioned, when he identifies such artifact Sortiment, that has lately been purchased by the Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum) with a place of origin in „Kőszeg, Vas Megye" (Vas County), of a Battinian (Serbia) origin. 81