Folia archeologica 27.

Viola T. Dobosi: Őskori telep Demjén-Hegyeskőbércen

DEMJÉN-HBGYF.SKŐBÉRC 15 any traces of a settlement, and showing a thick patina on the seemingly worked - in fact rolled - surface, are no artefacts. The bulk of the artefacts found about the settlement is of a better quality, and does not, in all possibility, originate from here. Settlement Objects In the course of the excavation we uncovered at Hegyeskőbérc I: 131 m

2, at Hegyeskőbérc II: 10 m

2 and at Hegyesköbérc III: 20 m

2; only Site I proved as an archaeological find place. During the excavation we uncovered three patches, each independent from the other, where the find material was concentrated, further the foundation of a square tent or house. On Level I (Fig. 1 ), in a length of approx. 2 m and in a width of 80-90 cm there were 18 andezite pieces of 1020 cm, 17 flakes, 2 sherds, 6 chipped stone implements, among them an arrowhead and a serpentine chisel. On Level II in the course of digging Trial Trench 1, (Fig. 1 and on Fig. 2 the NE patch) over an area of approx. 4 m

2, besides andesite pieces 4 potsherds, 25 flint flakes, wastes, and 19 tools were found. From the andesites a stone, bowl-like piece with a ridge is worth mentioning. Level III was also uncovered in Trench 1 (Fig. 1; on Fig. 2 the NE patch); an area of approx. 4 m

2 extension; we found here besides andesite pieces of a reddish colour and worn surface, such ones of a grey colour, 32 flint flakes and 5 tools. In view of the concentration of the find material and the relative situation to the dwelling object, these might have been tool-fabricating places. The object of the greatest importance is the foundation of a tent or a house (Fig. 2.), unearthed at Sections В, С and D. Dimensions: 3,5x3 m, direction: SW-NE. Of a square form, with sides meeting in angles of 100-110, resp. 80-90°, it is, consequently, approximately rectangular. It has, on its whole surface, a stone-packing. This consists of andesite, with sharp edges or rounded ones, of a light grey colour, resp. red, with a worn surface; further of larger, intact pebbles of different materials. Built in the house foundation - so to say substituting the stone - there were some larger sherds as well, alongside with some typical stone implements and flakes. The reddish andesite is found over the whole surface, except for the area marked on the figure with a dotted line, which does not differ, however, either regarding its level or its character, from the other parts of the house foundation, the stone packing, however, consists here largely of several layers of worn andesite. On its SW side, where the entrance might have been, the house foundation ends in a double, slightly foiled "apse" or corridor. On the sides larger stones, serving supposedly for a spanning of the skins or the supporting of the posts, sustaining the skins, occur more often. During the excavation nothing could be observed which would yield the slightest evidence of a superstructure of the house. Two square patches, NW of the house foundation, marked on the drawing with a dotted line (Fig. 2), came to light in the course of the removal of the house foundation, when cutting the yellow subsoil, they are, however, in no connection with the house foundation. The stone packing was slightly domed (Fig. 3). The foundation of a tent or a house, as the most significant object of the section of the settlement, unearthed at Demjén-Hegyeskőbérc, is particularly apt for searching for eventual connections of the settlement. We are in the favourable position that at Sződliget, our