Folia archeologica 44.
Gedai István: Dr. Kralovánszky Alán régészeti tevékenysége az ásatási jelentések alapján
40 ÉVA CSONGRÁDI-BALOGH - VIOLA T. DOBOSI VIOLA In section "С" (its sequence of layers was identified by the geographer Pál Sümegi 8 - Fig. 3.) at a depth of 110-130 cm we could observe charcoal in several irregular spots of approximately 20 cm diameter and took samples from them. In the same level a typical double burin made of dark brown radiolarite was found. Rather few chipped stone tools were found in the culture layer, 2-3 pieces per nr. In section C" the finds started to appear at a 110-150 cms depth. For technical reasons this level with its finds, which on the basis of these finds can be considered as a single culture layer, was dug up in two levels. In 19. LI we followed the sequence of layers to a 2 ill's depth. Below the yellow ochre-coloured, brittle, loessy soil there was a pale brown, buried soil layer, which is becoming more and more light downwards and within the В level of this soil layer loess concentrations as large as nuts or eggs are concentrated. Below the No 2. opening level of the culture layer, though separated from it by a 30 cm thick sterile layer, we found 3 worked flakes. We did not find any traces of this lower, older culture layer in the other sections. Püspökhatvan-Öregszőlő (Fig. 2) During our excavations at the site Püspökhatvan-Diós we took notice of the plateau which is situated to the N-NE at an about 250 m's distance from the site Diós. At several occassions there we collected finds an opened also the sections of the 1992 excavations. In 1992 at the site Püspökhatvan-Óregszőlő (Fig. 3) which is at about 270 m above sea level we opened a surface of about 28 m 2. At the time of the excavations the S part of the plateau called Öregszőlő by local inhabitants was a stupple-field. It is bordered from the E by the forestry road, from the N by the forest belt with acacias, from the W by a steep margin on the village side. It is covered by dense vegetation. From the S it is separated from the PüspökhatvanDiós site, excavated in the previous year, by an orchard with walnut trees, an area of about 250 m's width. There is a small horizontal plateau along the margin ol the terrace. At the W margin of the small plateau, facing the river Galga there are outcrops of raw material banks on the surface. Many, partly naturally broken raw material pieces, flakes, and blades we could collect from here, too. According to our original plans we intended to make a check excavation at the S margin of this plateau, following the surface indications of the exposed raw material. However, because we found a great quantity of scattered litliic material all over the stubblefield we expect the occurrence of a culture layer also from several other points of the area. An idealized sequence of layers is on Fig. 3. In the trenches the culture layer appears usually at a 40-50 em's depth, over the yellow layer. The upper 10-15 cm of the yellow clayey soil layer is a darkish yellow, here and there reddish "B" soil, but there isn't a sharp boundary between this soil and the other part of the layer. Worked chipped stone tools were found in every trench, though in a small quantity. In trench 1. tliere was an intact mammoth-tooth which had deepened to a -90 em's depth to the culture layer which started at a depth of-65 cm. Beside the tooth a flake, a few andesite pebbles were found together with some smudged charcoal grains which we were unable to pick up. Below the level with the mammoth-tooth, between -80 and -90 cm, in the hard light yellow clay we found also sporadic settlement features (andesite pebbles, flint flakes, charcoal, ochre grains). Below the mammoth-tooth there was no sterile 8 Here we should like to express our many thanks dr. Pál Sümegi for the determination of the sequence oflayers.
