Gyöngyössy Márton (szerk.): Perspectives on the Past. Major Excavations in County Pest (Szentendre, 2008)
Á Late Bronze Age settlement and cemetery at Püspökhatvan lit -{6100-4500 BC) (4500-2700 BC) BRONZE AGE (2700/2500-800 BC) conducted by Valéria Kulcsár. The site’s importance lies in the fact that few professionally excavated Late Bronze Age sites are known from this area. A few looted and/or ploughed up graves represent an earlier period (Tumulus culture). Inhumation and cremation burials were both found. One burial (Grave 3) yielded bronze and amber ornaments, another (Grave 6) contained six cups. Horseshoe shaped pendants and amber beads were usually strung into a necklace or sewn onto the garment. The flat spirals were used to adorn bracelets or finger-rings. Graves outlined with stones have so far only been found in this cemetery from this period. • among which household vessels and fine wares both occur. Loom weights were among the most common ceramic artefacts. Even though the use of metal tools and implements can be documented from the Copper Age onwards, the use of stone tools did not cease in the Bronze Age. Broken stone axes and jb manufacturing waste W were both found, suggesting that the stones axes had been made on the site. The bronze ornaments included dress fastening pins, and trumpet and hourglass shaped pendants. • Valéria Kulcsár and Nándor Nagy Lying in a waterlogged area between two streams, the site was discovered during the construction of a fish-pond in an area known as Sinkár in 2001, when finds from two differing periods of the Late Bronze Age came to light (dating from around 1300 and 1100 BC). The investigation of the site was The section of a village occupied by a community of the Urnfield culture dates from a later period of the Late Bronze Age. The most common settlement features were storage pits and pits used for clay extraction, which were secondarily reused as refuse pits. The finds are dominated by pottery,
