Abstract
Unique finds from placer deposits in the western Bulgaria are shown to discuss the interrelation among types of articles, the sites of gold-manufacturing, the placer deposits as the source of gold and the archeological significance of the discovery. The articles found in this area are characterized by both the gold and the precisely fine crafts. Most of them are identified archeologically with those at the same age of the Chalcolithic Necropolis near Varna in the eastern Bulgaria, where the metallic articles including copper and gold products were found in 1972 and have been considered to be of the oldest metal culture (before 4000 BC) in the world. The finding in the western Bulgaria are also valuable in following two facts that the sites of manufacturing gold-articles were specified to be very near to the gold-placer deposits and that the articles are comparable in various natures with those of the Varna Necropolis.
