Folia archeologica 1-2.

Leszih Andor: Borsodmegyei szkíta leletek

83 LESZIH: SCYTHIAN FINDS FROM THE COUNTY OF BORSOD fragments of a large rim, turning outwards in a curve, which belonged to a handled mug. Between urngraves 13 and 15 a Vandal spur had been found by Sándor Huszka in the previous year. 16. URNGRAVE. The fragments of a bowl with inturned rim. A half of a pouched urn, made on the wheel, with everted rim (Pl. IV, fig. 1, height 16 cm). The rim and the side of a coarse-walled bowl-like vessel (5 cm). Above them 5 pieces of stag antlers with traces of cutting. The urn contained tiny human bones. 17. URNGRAVE. A coarse-walled pouched urn (Fig. 4, no. 3, height 21 cm), its upper part and its rim missing. The diameter of the remaining part is 13 cm at the base and 25 cm at the belly. Beside it the fragments of a dish, 6 cm high. Close to the urn were some small pieces of human bones. Between the two vessels was a 10 cm long iron knife broken in two. 18. The half of a dark-green glass bead, 12 mm in diameter. 19. Beside the land-slide a coarse flint blade, worked by flaking, 10 cm long. 20. The half of a clay vessel with warts (18 cm); grindstone in the form of a stone celt, one of its faces flat and with traces of burning; in one heap 35 quartz pebbles, among them several with traces of burning; numerous potsherds. 21. In the trench driven along the highroad the fragment of a stone hammer; 11 flint cores; the rim of a vessel, of which not only the surface of the rim but also its edge was decorated with wavy line; the end of an iron knife and many sherds. It is obvious that during the road-making urngraves had been disturbed and these were their remains. 22. Sporadically and in the upper disturbed layers of the hill the following turned up: 5 obsidian blades; 2 flint; a spindle-whorl made from a sherd; fragments of iron knives; an iron rivet with a large head; a thick small bronze ring with the two ends standing apart and on the hoop at the top a small protuberant pellett; a stone slab used underneath the urn; a plate of irregular shape made from a skull (PL IV, fig. 8) perforated and towards the hole traces of wearing off; a small piece of antler (Pl. IV, fig. 7) with two plug-like projections on each side (3'8 cm long). For the second time we excavated in 1934 on the part of the hill towards the flood area of the Sajó, in the garden of István Kozák. According to the plan: I. URNGRAVE. The urn (Fig. 4, no. 4, height 26-5) provided with four broad warts below the belly and its neck part disproportionally larger than the lower, with everted rim and wide mouth (diam. 16 cm). This urn resembles roughly that of urngrave 9, decorated with swastika, only the lower part is not so sharply divided from the upper. The traces of a cover-dish. A grooved rim of a vessel which had got probably along with the earth also among the tiny human bones. II. URNGRAVE. The fragments of a coarse-walled urn, burnt black, with high neck. At the bottom of the neck a simple protuberance along the schoulder. The urn contained tiny bones, a plain spindle-whorl of a flattened globular shape (Pl. IV, fig. 9) and an iron bracelet (Pl. IV, fig. 12, diam. 7-5 cm). III. Immediately near II the small fragments of a coarse-walled urn beyond restoration; a part of the rim of a smaller vessel, made on the wheel, underneath that a human skull and south-westwards shoulder-blades. Beside the latter the fragments of an iron bracelet (diam. 6—7 cm) and beads (Pl. IV, fig. И). К little further shin-bones also with beads (Pl. IV, fig. 10). Four kinds of beads occur: 1) plain, undecorated, made of bone 5—7 mm in diameter; 2) cylinderical, with impressed circular ornament on the sides, made of bone, 1 cm in diameter (Such kind is mentioned by Béla Posta, JOURNEY OF JENŐ ZICHY, vol. II, pi. XXIII, fig. 31); 3) of flattened globular shape with deep zig-zag incisions on the side, made of bone, 1 —1-2 cm in diameter; 4) dark-blue undecorated glass bead of flattened globular shape. IV. URNGRAVE. The fragment of a largis urn with high neck and everted rim, provided with broad warts and burnt black. Some fragments of a bowl with inturned rim. The urn contained tiny burnt bones. V. The base and some parts of the side of a crucible shaped vessel. A piece of flint. VI. URNGRAVE. Coarse, thick-walled high vessel (Fig. 4, no. 5, height 19'5 cm, diam. 12 cm) of irregular shape with slightly convex side and straight rim, and a broad wart on its body divided into two by a finger-tip impression. In 1937 the road beside the Kocsmadomb was repaired and one part of the finds, which came to light on the occasion of the work, were rescued and particulars noted on the spot. The finds are the following according to the plan

: A. URNGRAVE. The upper parts of a dish (PL IV, fig. 13), made on the wheel, with an everted nim, below which was a simple ribbed decoration. At the same place the part of the base of a larger vessel, made also on the wheel. Beside the urn an iron axeadze (Pl. IV, fig. 14, length 16-5 cm). B. URNGRAVE. The urn ornamented with simple incised lines, but miserably fragmentary. A bronze bracelet (Pl. IV, fig. 15, diam. 6 cm). C. Traces of an urngrave. D. Urn and iron axe-adze. They are now in private possession. E. URNGRAVE. Coarse-walled clay urn (Fig. 4, no. 6) with a wart on its one side and with an everted rim. The urn contained a thick head of a rivet, 3-5 cm in diameter, and a narrow, flat perforated grindstone which fell apart into plates. F. and G. traces of urngraves. Beyond the road, on the property of Imre Kiss vessels, urns, dishes and mugs of Hallstatt type, as well as graphited urn of La Ténee type with a dense vertically incised linear ornamentation; further an iron sickle, spindle-whorl and grind-stone. All these turned up during garden G*