A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 43. (2004)

Fischl Klára: Ároktő-Dongóhalom bronzkori tell települése

THE BRONZE AGE SETTLEMENT AT ÁROKTŐ-DONGÓHALOM A rescue excavation was conducted at this site by Andor Saád and Géza Megay in 1930. In addition to excavating a 10th—

11th century and Iron Age burials, they also collected Bronze Age finds in the ploughed-up area (MEGAY 1956). The prehistoric finds were inventoried under nos 53-410.1-221 in the Herman Ottó Museum. Some of these finds were later published in Nándor Kalicz's monograph (KALICZ 1968, 118, Taf. LXX-LXXI). The site was investigated again by Tibor Kemenczei in 1966. The present study offers a description and typological analysis of the finds collected in 1930. The comparison of the assemblages from the two excavations indicates that the pottery finds from 1930 do not include any types which differ markedly from the ceramic inventory of the 1966 excavations, meaning that in spite of the continuous destruction of the tell'

s upper levels, the finds from the later excavation too can be regarded as a representative sample of the tell ' s final occupation phase. The find assemblage can be dated to the classical and late classical phase of the Füzesabony culture, similarly to the uppermost three levels of the eponymous Füzesabony settlement (SZATHMÁRI 1990), the Pusztaszikszó (KŐSZEGI 1968) and the Gelej burials (KEMENCZEI 1979), layer II of the Bárca settlement (HAJEK 1961) and the classical Füzesabony period levels of the Alsómislye settlement (OLEXA 1982; OLEXA 1992, Tab. VI-VII). The final phase of the Ároktő-Dongóhalom tell can be assigned to the close of the late classical Füzesabony phase. Both the finds presented in this study and the assemblages published later hardly contain any finds betraying the pottery traits of the Bodrogszerdahely phase, suggesting that the settlement was no longer occupied during the period corresponding to the later Szepescsütörtök horizon (VLADÁR 1975), the Bárca I layer (HAJEK 1961), the latest Alsómislye horizon and the Nagyrozvágy settlement (KOÓS 2003). The occupation of the settlement overlapped slightly with the early phase of the Bodrogszerdahely cemetery (POLLA 1960). Although a Hatvan community also occupied the settlement, these were barely represented among the surface finds collected by Megay (a few textile impressed body sherds and brushed rim fragments). Klára F is с hl 81