161 socket 34 mm; max. width of the blade 43 mm; weight 420,1 grams. A qualitative analysis of the alloy was realized already in 2000 by doc. J. Krištín from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava, whom we would like to thank this way. The analysis revealed that it is tin bronze with a relatively low tin content (4,01–6,6 %), decimal values of silver (from 0,35 to 0,46 %) and zinc (0,11 to 1,43 %). A particularity of the artefact is primarily in the fact that the territory of its origin and the area of the largest ind concentration are located hundreds of kilometres away from the Slovak-Moravian border region, where it was undoubtedly found (Fig. 2). According to the generally accepted typological classiication of those bronze artefacts it belongs, as already stated, to the type Aa after A. Mozsolics (1967, 35). Axe-hammers of this type are characteris- tic representatives of the bronze inventory of the Hajdúsamson phase (Mozsolics 1967). They were typical for the north-eastern part of the Carpathian Basin in the Early Bronze Age, phase BA2 (Fig. 2). Some other parallels scatter further north and west (Novotná 1970. 55). However, the site in Petrová Ves in the Záhorie region rep- resents so far one of the most distant intrusions of this unique bronze artifact type outside the area of its main occurrence. Axe-hammers and especially disc-butted axe-hammers represent an attractive bronze artifact, whose function was not only practical, but certainly also symbolic. Therefore, deserved and special attention was paid to them and to their rich decoration not only in the area of their origin and main occurrence, but also in neigh- bouring and other European countries (Kroeger- Michel, 1983; Vulpe/Laza ˇ r 1997 – ibid. further literature). Since the aforementioned axe-hammer repre- sents neither as to typological, nor cultural and Petrova Ves, district Skalica, has so far archae- ologically been an almost unknown site. The village is located in the Záhorie region and lies therefore outside the Carpathian Arch and the Carpathian Basin. It is situated near to Unín, where a fortiied settlement of the Věteřov cul- ture was excavated at Zámčisko (Studeníková 1983). The Věteřov culture was, according to Slo- vak Bronze Age experts and according to the con- cept of the historical development of the Bronze Age in Slovakia and Central Europe, a part of the Maďarovce-Věteřov-Böheimkirchen cultural complex (Furmánek/Veliačik/Vladár 1991, 61, 79; Furmánek/Veliačik/Vladár 1999, 47), and not an independent group as it is understood by some, otherwise, excellent Moravian archaeolo- gists (Stuchlík 2006, 228; Stuchlíková 1990). The anonymity and almost insigniicance of the village Petrova Ves changed after the acci- dental inding of a unique bronze disc-butted axe-hammer, which was richly decorated with a typical ornament of bronzes (Fig. 3–4) of the Hajdúsamson horizon in the Carpathian Basin (Mozsolics 1967). This unique artifact was found quite ran- domly by Mr. Ladislav Morávek from Bratis- lava in the summer of 1989, during agricultural works in the cadastre of the village Petrova Ves. The bronze disc-butted axe-hammer dei- nitely belongs to the type Aa after A. Mozsolics (1967, 35). It lay in the surface soil southwest of the village on a gentle slope in the location of Záhumenice (Fig. 1). The axe-hammer is extraordinarily richly decorated with a typical curved-linear ornament (Fig. 3–4). Parameters: L. 191 mm; max. diameter of the disc-butt 63 mm; diameter of the socket 21 mm; max. width of the BUFM 74, Furmánek, Mišík, Tóth, „Bronze Axe-hammer from Petrova Ves“, xx–xx Decoration Technology of the Bronze Axe-hammer from Petrova Ves 1 Václav Furmánek, Peter Mišík, Peter Tóth 1 The paper was supported by the project APVV No. 0736-11.