A Bronze Ornamented Dagger from Ig from the Early Bronze Age

The article discusses the site circumstances of the bronze ornamented dagger with a semicircular hilt plate from Ig and Early Bronze Age pottery from the Ljubljansko barje. A thesis is set that somewhere in the area of Eneolithic pile-dwellings north of Ig, a Bronze Age settlement can be expected and that the dagger could belong to this settlement. The fact that the dagger was found at the site area of the Eneolithic Pile-dwelling II is hence solely the consequence of the circumstance that the areas of the settlements from the end of the Eneolithic and the Early Bronze Age at least partly overlap. The clarification that the dagger is most probably not a ritually deposited marsh find but rather a settlement find opens up questions regarding the provenience and the significance of several other archaeological, primarily metal finds from the Ljubljansko barje.