Article mentions one metal tool. Were others found and not included in the article? Maybe a copper chisel was good for something seventy five years ago but I wonder what they did with it.
If the site was a smithy there should be a great deal more evidence on the site than one copper chisel.
This may be a poor translation or the archaeologist may have a poor grasp of English but a scientist saying “we want to prove” bothers me. Perhaps it would be better to say we expect to prove or it is our hypothesis that this site was a metal works centre in the central part of the Balkans.
I know it is anal of me:)
“...this finding, along with 40 similarly valuable ones before it, among which there were more parts of metal tools and weapons,...”
Apparently there were other tools, just not complete ones. No mention of what kind of tools, either. Typical.