A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 47. (2008)

B. Hellebrandt Magdolna: Rézkori élet nyomai Mezőkeresztes, Novajidrány és Muhi lelőhelyeken

it was a skull burial, resembling the similar graves found at Bodrogkeresztúr (HILLEBRAND 1927, 54). Feature 5 of the Mezőkeresztes site contained goat bones, while a cattle skull lay in Pit 15, without any other dating finds. Finds of the Late Celtic period and the Árpádian Age also came to light at the site. Novajidrány-Sárvár Copper Age pottery sherds, burnt daub fragments, flints and flakes (Fig. 8) unassociated with any settlements features came to light between 1990 and 1993, during the excavation of the Celtic cemetery lying on the slope of Mt. Sárvár overlooking the lloodplain of the River Hernád (Figs 6-7). Modern finds and two Copper Age vessels, as well as Copper Age sherds came to light from a depth of-53-69 cm during the excavation of Grave 13, a disturbed Celtic cremation burial. One of the Copper Age vessels is four-lobed (Fig. 9. 3, Fig. 10). A photo of this vessel was published by Pál Patay (PATAY 2002, Fig. 2, but the accompanying text is misleading since the Copper Age settlement finds had come to light together with the Celtic burial). Comparable vessels are known from the Bodrogkeresztúr culture. The other Copper Age vessel was a bowl set on four knobs (Fig. 9. 9, Fig. 11). Both vessel types can be assigned to the Bodrogkeresztúr culture. Muhi-Kocsmadomb A Scythian-Celtic cemetery was excavated on the high bluff overlooking the floodplain of the River Sajó in 1972-1974 and 1977 (Fig. 12, Fig. 13. 1). Copper Age pottery fragments and lithics came to light in the excavation trenches (Fig. 13. 2), alongside a handful of Alföld Linear Pottery sherds. Pottery finds of this Neolithic culture had also come to light during Andor Leszih's excavations in the 1930s (KOREK-PATAY 1958, 16). The vessels with pointed knobs (Fig. 14. 1-3) date from the Early Copper Age. Ida Bognár-Kutzián listed Muhi among the sites of the Tiszapolgár culture based on the few fragments, which had reached the Hungarian National Museum (BOGNÁRKUTZIÁN 1972, 59). The fragments brought to light during the excavation of the cemetery suggest that the other fragments too originate from this site. Other pottery fragments (Fig. 14. 5-12, Fig. 15. 1-21) are matched by the finds published by János Banner in his monograph on the Pécel culture (BANNER 1956). These include vessels decorated with punctates and incised lines (Fig. 14. 8) and miniature suspension vessels (Fig. 14. 4). An axe carved from antler (Fig. 16. 12) can also be assigned to the Pécel culture. Magdolna B. Hellebrandt