A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ate descendant of the seems proljable that this Hungarianindustry did not transmit the spiral and other features from south to north, but was rather an isolatedlocal development. Most of these later Hungarian finds are not from graves butdeposits, in which several objects of the same type, sometimesall undamaged, occur together: thus on one occasion as manyas twenty swords were found in one place. Such collections asthese must have been either deposited for votive purposes or elseconce
A guide to the antiquities of the bronze age in the Department of British and mediæval antiquities . ate descendant of the seems proljable that this Hungarianindustry did not transmit the spiral and other features from south to north, but was rather an isolatedlocal development. Most of these later Hungarian finds are not from graves butdeposits, in which several objects of the same type, sometimesall undamaged, occur together: thus on one occasion as manyas twenty swords were found in one place. Such collections asthese must have been either deposited for votive purposes or elseconcealed as valuable property ; but there are also examples offounders hoards containing scrap bronze destined to be melteddown and re-worked ; a noted example of the latter was discoveredat Hammersdorf in Transylvania. With the swords there havebeen found imported bronze vessels of types which in Italy andthe Eastern Alps belong to the Hallstatt period ; the inferencebeing that Eastern Hungary did not use iron until long after the •countries fuither to the south and west. During this later period. Fig. —Sooketcd celt,Hungary. 3 102 DESCRIPTION OF CASE G its culture should be compared with that of the early Iron ageas represented at Glasinatz in Bosnia rather than with the olderBronze culture of Northern Europe. It has been stated that a free employment of spiral ornament ischaracteristic of the later Hungarian Bronze age. The spiralsare frequently coiled from thick bronze wire, often of lozenge orquadrangular section ; in this manner are formed the ends of
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