A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 6. (1966)
K. VÉGH Katalin: Boldogkő várának feltárása
THE DIGGING UP OF CASTLE BOLDOGKŐ 159 and its place was cut into the rock (pict. 5, 21, 23—24). From the tools of brewery one may conclude that brwing had been going on too in the castle, perhaps in the southern part of the broken bastion (pict. 5). In the XVII. century there was no greater construction. Only a room with brickpillars was added to the south-eastern corner of the Oldtower (pict. 5, 41), the walls that fence the road leading to the entrance of the castle might have been made then (pict. 4—5). The decay of the castle began with the explosion by the imperial army in 1701—1702, and from this time on its destruction has been going on. In the last third of the XIX. century the neogothie restauration of the castle took place in the time of the Péchy-family. Theen entrances, apertures for windows were rebuilt of brick to gothic, and some walls fallen out were walled up. About the significance of Boldogkő we may say this. During the centuries it never played an important role in historical events, it never was a royal castle, rather an ob jest of royal grant and is has been possessed mostly by smaller families of the Highland. It has not been used as a residence for a longer period, otherwise it would have been equipped much richer than shown by the simple finds of the digging up. Boldogkő, besides being a means of defence, has been the economical centre of the estates belonging to it. In the Middle Ages standing near to the road that led to Kassa, it had a right of tax and thirtieth collecting [156]. Out of the poorish find we may bring to prominence a glazeless stovetile representing a rider and reminding us of the XVI —XVII. centuries (V. t. 1.), a glazeless, stained, wire-patterned tove-cowl and a coloured, glazed jug with flowery Turkish design (V. t. 2.).
