Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 29 (1984) (Pécs, 1985)

Régészet - Ecsedy István: Őskori leletek Dunaszekcső-Várhegyről

ŐSKORI LELETEK DUNASZEKCSÔ-VARHEGYRÔL 101 NemejcováPavuková (1968) Roman (1976) Roman (1977) V. Nemejcová-Pavuková : Aeneolithische Siedlung und Stratigraphie in Iza. Slov. Arch. 16 (1958) 353-433. P. Roman: Kontakte der Софоfeni Kultur mit den BadenKostolac- und Vucedol-Kulturen im Westen Rumäniens. Istrazivanja 5 (Novi Sad 1976) 143-148. P. Roman: The Late Copper Age Cotofeni Culture of SouthEast Europe. BAR Supplementary Series 32 (1977) Roman (1980) Schmidt (1945) Schreiber (1981) Wosinszky (Ш96) = P. I. Roman: Der „KostolacKultur" - Begriff nach 35 Jahren. PZ 55 (1980) 220-227. R. R. Schmidt: Die Burg Vucedol. (Zagreb 1945) R. Schreiber: A nagyré

vi kultúra telepe Diósdon (Die Siedlung der Nagyrév-Kultur in Diósd). Arch. Ért. 108 (1981) 135-155 (155-156) M. Wosinszky : Tolnavármegye az őskortól a honfoglalásig. (Budapest 1896) Praehistoric finds from Dimaszekcső — Várhegy ISTVÁN ECSEDY This paper is intended to publish the - mostly sporadic - finds kept in various collections which represent the prehistoric settlements on Dunaszekcső-Várhegy.

1 There is not any possibility to get more data by an excavation since the whole site is densely covered with vineyards let alone the fact that the pehistoric layers would be accessable only after the excavation of the Middle Age settlement and the thick debris of Lugio, the important auxiliary camp on the limes of the Roman Age Pannónia. The site is a high loess - plateau situated on the West - bank of the Danube. The most part of the finds given to different museums in the course of the last 80 years was found under the edge of the plateau as the Danube is continually reducing the extension of the site (Fig. 1). The bulk of the materials published here comes from the collection of dr. György Csanády, Bátaszék, and from a rescue excavation of the Janus Pannonius Museum in 1974.

2-4 Judging from the finds known so far it seems evident that the well défendable site must have been settled more or less continually from the Late Copper Age Baden Culture (Fig. 15) until the end of the Middle Bronze Age (Koszider-period)

. The finds of the Kostolac Culture (Figs. 6-7, Pis 1-7 represent the short episode of infiltration of this population along the Danube during the Late Baden period, partly preceeding, partly paralelly with the Vucedol intrusion

9-19 which is also well documented by the material (Pis 8-16) from our site.

20-M The special objects appearing in the Vucedol - Zók material are the altar - fragments of bucranium (horns of consecration) type. Considering the frequency of these objects it can be supposed that the Dunaszekcső settlement belongs to the relatively early phase of the Vucedol - Zók Culture (as far as the territory of Hungary is concerned) although the periodization of the culture has not been clarified so far. The cultural sequence following the Vucedol Zók Culture contains some Somogyvár - Vinkovci (Fig. 10, Pis 17-18) finds

28 and the stratum of the Late Nagyrév Culture (Figs 8-9, Pis 22-24).29 The latest praehistoric populations which can be documented here are those of the Transdanubian (Pannonian) Incrusted Pottery Culture and Szeremle Group (Figs 12-14 Pis 19-21).6-8-