Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 22 (1977) (Pécs, 1978)

Régészet - Ecsedy István: Excavations at Lánycsók in 1976 (Preliminary Report)

EXCAVATIONS AT LÁNYCSÓK IN 1976 127 Neolithic: Late La Tène — Roman Age: a) Starcevo culture: The pits 1, 2a

—c, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31 and the graves 1—2 in the pit 2. b) Lengyel culture: The in 1973 excavated graves 3—4 aid sporadic finds and the pit 23. Copper Age : a) Balaton group: Chance finds from 1973 and the object 14 (PI. IV. 1.). b) Baden culture, Boleráz group: The pits 7—8. (PI. IV. 2.). Bronze Age: a) Vucedol

—Zók culture: The pits 3, 4—4a and 5. (PI. IV. 3—5, PI. V.). b) Somogyvári—Vinkovci culture: The pit „b" from 1973 and the pit 22. (PI. VI. 1—7.). c) Kisapostag culture: The pit „d" from 1973 and the pit 11. (PI. VI. 8—12.). d) The Pannonian Incrusted Pottery culture: The „A" house from 1973 and the hearth 20. (PL VI. 13—20.). e) Urn-field culture: The pit „a" from 1973 and the pits 10, 33. Near to the Égettmalom are known both the late La Tène and Roman sites. (Lánycsók—Bácsfapuszta.) The settlement of the Roman age villagers on our site is represented by the pit „c" and the pits 6, 16, 32. Migration-Period : Avarian cemetery: Unstratified finds from destroyed graves and the graves „a"

—„f". Although the excavation was restricted to a small area, it resulted in the demonstration of all prehistoric cultures known from South-Transdanubia apart from the Linear Pottery culture and the Sopot

—Bicske group, the classical Baden culture and the Kostolác group, the Tumulus culture and the Late Halstatt — Early La Tène cultures. It seems likely that some of the groups not represented by the excavation material so far also had been settled down in this place. The site must have been an important point on the road leading from the Danube along the creekvalley to the Mecsek mountains about 20 km north of the site.