Rosta Szabolcs szerk.: Kun-kép - A magyarországi kunok hagyatéka (Kiskunfélegyháza, 2009)

Sárosi Edit: Újabb kutatások a középkori Szentkirály faluban

SÁROSI EDIT: ÚJABB KUTATÁSOK A KÖZÉPKORI SZENTKIRÁLY FALUBAN Edit Sárosi New researchesin the medieval village of Szentkirály This paper summarizes the preliminary results of the archaeological research carried out between 2005 and 2008 in the medieval village of Szentkirály. The investigation was carried out, because the local community intended to enlarge the cemetery of the present settlement, and the proposed extension area overlapped the medieval village site. Thus, the scale and the extension study area cannot be compared to the previous systematic and targeted investigations of András Pálóczi-Horváth. Instead, the 1500 nr research area, situated roughly 70 m north-northeast from the medieval church, was interpreted as a random sample from the central part of the medieval village. During the beside the scarce traces from the Sarmatian Period, the detail of a dwelling house from the Árpádian Age, and mostly the features from the late medieval settlement were revealed. Concerning the examination of the medieval site, the main axis of the study area became the late medieval road identified as the main street of the settlement, various parts of which had been previously detected by András Pálóczi-Horváth. Along both sides of the road, multi-period, renovated shallow drainage ditches were discovered. It can be supposed that pedestrians crossed these ditches through wooden bridges, as the presence of such structure is indicated by a pair of post-holes discovered at the southern side of the road. North of the road, the details of two renewed houses were identified, both belonging to the threesectioned late medieval house-type. According to the statigraphic observations, the two buildings were most probably habited contemporaneously. Between the house Nr 1 and the road, the traces of a fence was located, running parallel both with the southern wall of the house and the road. Moreover, between hose Nr 1 and house Nr 2 a large, deep storage pit or cellar was unearthed, beside a well. The lavish find material from these two objects suggest that they were used till the end of the fourteenth century, and were utilized as refuse pits through the fifteenthsixteenth centuries, the latest filling layers coincide with the late sixteenth century trampled surface revealed between the houses. South of the medieval street, an additional detail of a building from the turn of the fifteenth-sixteenth centuries was documented at right angles to the road. The function of this building was not clarified, but the traces of ovens and the filling material of the pits around it propose that it might have been connected to farming. Furthermore, next to this construction, an additional shallow ditch was discovered at right angles to the road, maybe identical with a dividing line between plots. In sum, the excavation did not produce basically new features of object types, still the results, mainly the documentation of the medieval street and its micro-environment, contributed some fine remarks on the inner structure of the late medieval settlement. 237