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Fig. 8 Hernádvécse-Nagy rét site 4. Oven str.4 8. kép Hernádvécse—Nagy rét, 4. lh. Str.4 kemence

of semi-subterranean buildings with six postholes and without furnaces.16 A building deepened in the uppermost layer of the castrum of Intercisa can be mentioned as an exception (Bóna 1991, 262—263, Fig. 67; Vida 2011, 632).

2.3.2. Oven

There was only a single open-air oven at the site (Str.4), 30 m to the east from building Str. 125.

Str.4

Oven

Oval oven with burned sides and an even floor, the mouth directed to northwest. Only the base of the walls remained. The pit was oval with curved bottom. The filling of the features was blackearth mixed with charcoal ashes. (Fig. 8)

External ovens were absent in the Carpathian Basin in Roman Age German settlements. The using of this

16 Ordacsehi-Csereföld; Ordacsehi-Kis töltés (Bocsi et aL 2016, 97, map 4. Fig. 1.), Mohács (PArducz 1949); Zamárdi-Kútvölgyi dűlő (Kiss 2007, 67—69, 57. kép), but the so-called Eckpfostenhaus is also observable nerby the limes: Biatorbágy (Ottományi 2008), Pilismarót (Vékony 1985).

facility became more frequent in the 5th—6th centuries AD (Bocsi 2008, 215; BAcsmegi-Guba 2007, 21-22) with the transformation of the cooking habits.

2.3.3. Pits

Most of the features in the Hunnic period settlement were smaller pits and larger storage pits. Beside the beehive-shaped storage pits common in the late Roman Age settlements more shallow irregular pits were unearthed as well. (Fig. 9)

2.3.3.1. Oval, shallow pits (Str.30,49, 52,87,104,187)

The shallow, wide features were an irregular oval

in forms. Several of them were smaller, 100—120 cm in diameter and 0.5 m3 in capacity (Str.30, 49,187) the other three were wider (150—170 x 170—250 cm) and subsequently larger, 1.3 m3 in capacity (Str.52, 87,104). The depths were only 10—30 cm.

2.3.3.2. Cylindrical pits (Str.40,192, 302)

Fairy regular storage pits. Their mouths were round or slightly oval, the sides cylindrical, the bottoms slightly curved. They were uniform in size: 100—120 cm in diameter and 45—70 cm deep. The capacities were between 0.77—1.3 m3.

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