Folia archeologica 27.
Viola T. Dobosi: Őskori telep Demjén-Hegyeskőbércen
14 V. T. DOBOSI i. Demjén-Hegyeskőbérc, substructure summit of the house in the direction of diagonals A-B and C-D 3. ábra. Demjén-Hegyeskőbérc, a házalap felszíne az A-B és C-D átlók irányában saddle of the narrow plateau, NE of the beehive stones, in the direction of the four cardinal points (Fig. 1). The stratigraphie sequence of the site is as follows: humous layer of a good quality and an average thickness of 35 cm underneath 25-30 cm of a light yellow, hard clay which is separated by a sharp line from the' light, coarse grained calciferous sand, ca. 20 cm thick, cemented downwards gradually going over to the rock-bed. The finds - sherds, waste-material, chipped stone implements - came to the surface already at the first spit. The bulk of the archaeological find material was two spits deep, on the basis of the humus stratum. The clay was sterile. On the freshly dug, uncovered surface a humus layer of some millimetres under the objects y segregating sharply from the light clay , n>as perceptible. Parallelly with the uncovering of the settlement we performed test excavations on the plateau around the Hegyeskőbérc at two further places: at Hegyeskőbérc II, NW of the beehive stones at a small, level area, immediately at the edge of the steeply descending bronk now covered with a wood, we dug a trial trench which proved, however, quite sterile. Hegyeskőbérc III: E-SE of the settlement, in a distance of ca 200 m, we opened, on the side of a slight rise, a trial trench of 20 m. The surface on this section of 20 m had a gradient of 1,5 m towards W. At the E-end of the trench the humus layer was 30 cm, thickening, due to the erosion of the humus, gradually to 90 cm. We found the rock-bed in a depth of 1-1,5 m under the surface. At the bottom of the humus layer, i.e. in a depth identical with the growing layer of the humus, we have unearthed a coherent gravel mantle. The gravel mantle consisted of pebbles of various materials, their size varying between nut-size and goose-egg-size. The broken pebbles, calling the attention firstly to the site, might have come to surface at the brink of the ravine of this very layer. These split pebbles, coming from a gravel bed, lacking
