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Tibor Kovács: Arcosedény Tószegről tőrábrázolással
83 D Fig. 2-2. ábra Tószeg. Section of the 1948 campaign. After CSALOG 1952, Fig. 2 Tószeg. Az 1948. évi ásatás eyik profilja CSALOG J. (1952, 2. kép) nyomán. overlying it in spits a and b was of dark grey colour, and of black colour in the western half of the trench. According to the publication the same was observed in spit e that was 20 cm thick and lay at a depth of 110 cm. 7 The excavation report only mentions yellow coloured and burnt clay levels with post holes and remains of a floor constructed of oak beams in the description of spit f — i. e. a real settlement layer. 8 However, a closer scrutiny of actual field observations as recorded in the excavation diary, and of the published sections revealed conspicuous differences suggesting that the separation of the levels and, consequently, of the finds from a given level cannot have been too precise. The published section (cf. Fig. 2) clearly shows that the living surfaces and floor levels first recorded by the excavators in spit / should already have been noted in spit e and, to a lesser extent, during the clearing of spit d , even more so since the 'spit niveaus' and the real settlement levels intersected each other in several spots. 9 It would appear that 7 Csalog 1952, 22, 26. 8 Csalog 1952, 26, Abb. 3. 9 It must be emphasized, however, that the shortcomings of the excavation can only be demonstrated because József Csalog — with his characteristic precision — marked the lower boundary of individual spade spits on the sections; neither should it be forgotten that even though the need for excavating tell settlements according to levels had already been recognised in the late 1940s also in Hungary (cp. Csalog 1952, 21), it was only a couple of decades later that this requirement was effectively put into practice — in spite of different experimentations with varying success. It cannot be mere chance that the most successful recent attempts to this effect have been made at Tószeg, the 'former Mecca' of Hungarian archaeology (cp. S táncaik 1979 — 80; Bóna 1979-80).
