ACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA TOMUS 5 (A MTA RÉGÉSZETI KÖZLEMÉNYEI, 1954)
5. kötet / 1-2. sz. - GY. MÉSZÁROS-L. VÉRTES: A Paint Mine from the Early Upper Palaeolithic Age near Lovas (Hungary, County Veszprém)
3 GY. MÉSZÁROS - L. VÉRTES A PAINT MINE FROM THE EARLY UPPER PALAEOLITHIC AGE NEAR LOYAS (ЙUNGARY, COUNTY VESZPRÉM) SITE AND EXCAVATION OF THE PAINT MINE NEAR LOVAS In the spring of 1951, the Veszprém Museum was informed of the discovery of prehistoric bones in the vicinity of Csopak. The finds were entrusted to the custody of M. Csordás, an official of the State Forestry Comission of Balatonfüred. On receiving this notification, Gyula Mészáros visited the offices of the Forestry Commission on April 2, 1951, examined the material which promised tobe a palaeolithic find of outstanding interest, taking it over on behalf of the Bakony Museum, Veszprém. The collection consists of tools and fragments of tools made of the bones and antlers of herbivorous animals characteristic of the pleistocene. According to M. Csordás7s account, the bone objects had been unearthed in the dolomite quarry belonging to the village Lovas on Lake Balaton (the site is called «Mackó» in local parlance), at a depth of 3—4 metres, from a red-coloured layer, while quarrying the dolomite gravel. The dyeing effect of the mineral material was such that the implements used in quarrying were stained red. The site discovered while quarrying the dolomite weathering product lies between the villages of Felsőörs and Lovas (in County Veszprém), to the W-NW of the former, NW of the Királykút Well, at a distance of 1200 metres. Around Lake Balaton there are six triassic «Hauptdolomit» plateaux of varying size ; the most important of them rises along the Felsőörs highway, reaching across the forests of Felsőörs, Csopak, Balatonarács, and Balatonfüred as far as the Balatonszőllős—Pécsely basin.1 This plateau rises 280—290 metres above sea level. The dolomite runs approximately in straight direction from east to west and is nearly horizontal in dip (Fig. 1). The terrain is variagated and comparatively well articulated by the valleys of streams running approximately from north to south and draining the water from the district into Lake Balaton ; Fig. 1 The Lovas Paint Mine and its Neighbourhood among them are the steep, rocky Királykút Valley, the Nosztor Valley lying west of the site (near Csopak), etc. -TTDoLomcte AI иге 11 I 1 |"| »HaMjUxtóLorriLt • I __ j Ufbfbec CcuTbfbUluxsb I—1 LasneLLcttecL Lcmestone y j Louée - cuxcC Middle t I CccncpLLLtccn, Layers Tccderdcnccs Limestone Buchensteùb Layers » M u.scheLkcclÁ. » »Megyehegy- DoLomcte (Louer Arccsccs) 'SôubcLocheyy» Lunes tone (Косе rccœn, ) j | "| I j Uß/гес MaccL Gcourv I'-.' •: ; ;| Sueet-watec Limestone j _j Loess ALLuuccuiX' 1 L. Lóczy : A Balaton környékének geológiai képződményei. A Balaton tud. tanulmányozásának eredményei (Geologic Formations in the Area of Lake Balaton. Results of a Scientific Study of the Balaton). Vol. 1/1, Budapest 1913, p. 172.