The aim of this study is to determinate the production methods of metal artefacts from the Alpine region in the Copper and Early Bronze Age. In particular, patterns indicating remodelling or reshaping process in antiquity will be looked. The results may give us information about how metal artefacts were considered and transmitted from a community to another at the very beginning of metal production: the first metal artefacts may be considered as status symbols more than functional tools, so what was produced in one community, when traded to another, was reshaped to make it more acceptable to the receiving culture. Metallographies on some artefacts from the North of Italy have shown some reshaping features and further investigation may enlighten if it was a technique of all the Alpine region. GEM beamtime at ISIS (2 days) is therefore proposed to undertake non- destructive metallography.