Folia archeologica 8.
Barkóczi László: Császárkori edényégető telep Bicsérden
Celtic Pottery Kilns 87 the times of the Roman empire. Information on this point is, however, still too few and far between. More information is available, however, from the archaeological material concerning the Eravisci who invaded East Pannónia towards the end of the late La Tène period and survived into the days of the Roman occupation of Pannónia. The other half of East Pannonia's population was settled down here at the turn of the first century from West, or Southwest Pannónia behind the East Pannonian Limes. This statement applies to the tumulus folk but to other peoples, too, who, like the settlers of Balatonaliga and Bicsérd, did not practise tumulus burials. It seems not unreasonable to assume that the economic background of the Lower Pannonian Limes was considered unsatisfactory by the Roman authorities as the Eravisci were rather spread out when settled, and because of the small numbers of the Hercuniates south-west of the Lake Balaton, and also on account of the thinly inhabited region south of the Mecsek Hills that was peopled by the Andizetes. 8 0 To improve this state of affairs, during Domitian and Trajan when the Limes had been completed, a spontaneous and an officially engineered movement of the population was called upon to make up for this weakness in the social and economic organization.
