Szolyák Péter - Csengeri Piroska (szerk.): A Herman Ottó Múzeum Évkönyve 56. (Miskolc, 2017)

Régészet - Soós, Eszter et al.: Settlement and graves from Hernádvécse (NE-Hungary) in the 5th century AD: relation of living space and burial place in the Hun Period

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Soós, Eszter—Bárány, Annamária—Köhler, Kitti—Pusztai, Tamás

Fig. 2 1: Hernádvécse-Nagy rét site 4. 2: Feature types of the Fiún Age settlement

2. kép Hernádvécse-Nagy rét, 4. lh. 1: Л feltártjelenségek elhelyezkedése korszakok szerint 2: A hun kori jelenségek elhelyezkedése típus szerint

2.2.1.2. Grave goods

1) Foot fragment of a bow brooch on the left shoulder at the proximal end of the humerus (Fig. 3.1.). Carved ornamentation (Kerbschnitt) composed of triangles can be observed between molded ribbing on the end of the foot and the bow. Length: 4.7 cm, Width: 1.1 cm, thickness: 0.2-0.7 cm.3

2) Silver buckle between the rib bones (Fig. 3.2.). The cross-section of the D-shape loop is round, expanding toward the middle. The tongue is rolled over the loop and decorated at the hinge end with X-shaped engraved lines. Only the lower part of the rectangular buckle plate remained, it was fixed with one rivet on the middle. Buckle plate (diam): 1.9 X 1.9 cm, loop (diam): 2.5 x 2 cm; tongue: 0.4 cm.

2.2.2. Str.309.

Grave

Disturbed inhumation burial oriented NW. The narrow, long gravepit was rectangular. Postholes with

3 The archeological material was deposited in the Herman Ottó Musem, Miskolc (Inventory numbers: 2007.17.1.1—2007.17.61.3.)

a diameter of 0.2 m could be observed inside at the corners of the gravepit, their connection with the grave is uncertain. The burial was heavily disturbed, the bones were heaped up in the western part of the pit. Length: 200 cm, width: 60 cm, Depth: 60 cm.

2.2.2.1. Anthropological description

Adultus—maturus (35—45 years old male)

The assemblage consisted of fragmentary skull and well-preserved postcranial bones (both shin bones, tarsals, metatarsals and phalanges are missing due to grave robbery).

The age at death was estimated from the extent of the dental attrition, the state of the cranial suturae closure, the changes of the sjmphyseal and auricular surface face of the pubic bone and on the changes of the sternal ends of the ribs (Todd 1920; Nemeskéri 1961; Perizonius 1981; Meindl-Lovejoy 1985; Lovejoy etal. 1985; I$can etal. 1984).

The sexing was determined based on both the expressed metrical and morphological traits of the skull and the postcranial bones.

Thought the skull was not measurable, some morphological traits could be observed. The forehead is