Abstract
The study discusses a previously published find, a ‘Late Bronze Age violin-bow fibula’ from the prehistoric collection of the Hungarian National Museum, Department of Archaeology. The object was bought by the institute in 1948 from a certain Elemér Szabó, who stated that it was found by his son on the bank of the Danube River in Esztergom. In 2021, we re-studied the find by metalwork production and use-wear analysis and X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The results of both analyses revealed that this specimen has a highly unusual character regarding its traces of manufacturing and elemental composition. In our opinion, based on these atypical characteristics, this ‘artefact’ can be determined as a modern forgery and therefore must not be included in further studies on the so called Unterradl type violin-bow fibulae.
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