A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 27. Tanulmányok a 70 esztendős Végvári Lajos tiszteletére. (1989)

B.HELLEBRANDT Magdolna: A csobaji kelta sír és régészeti kapcsolatai

homogeneous in the marked territory. It is sure that other finds confirm this fact. Here I think first of all of the spread of anklets with four blisters.

87 The astralagos belts spread from the South to the North as well. The question arises what made the people with these characteristic finds wander to the North in the middle of the 3d century. It is generally accepted that the Celts were driven back to their original homeland after the Great Balkan Campaign.

88 It cannot be a mere chance that the only Greek piece in our Celtic finds is the cantharos which was found at Szob.

89 So it is obvious that the wellknown historical events caused this wandering to the North. I carried out an excavation at the find-spot at Csobaj in 1983 (Fig. 17.) but no Celtic finds came to light. We found some pits from the period of the Roman Empire and the traces of a settlement from the age of the Arpads.

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91 The Celtic grave was the grave of a child on account of the recognizable bones. The full pig-skeleton is essential, a similar one was found at Radostyán.

92 It must be a sole grave because of the hand formed bowl and the similarly hand formed big urn. To all appearances the sandhill and the marshland in front of it provided shelter to those staying here temporarily and who had blood and family connections with the original inhabitants no matter how we may call them. Magdolna В. Hellebrandt 461