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

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str. 164

str.275

str. 165

str. 187

str.308

Fig. 9 Hernádvécse-Nagy rét site 4. Pit types 9. kép Hernádvécse—Nagy rét, 4. Ih. Л gödrök formatípusai

2.3.3.3. Beehive-shape pits (Str.20,21,160,164,165, 166, 209, 275, 303, 308)

Storage pits of regular form. Their mouths were round, the sides more or less widening, the bottom flat or slightly curved. Regarding the sizes similar tendencies can be observed as with the oval pits, many of them were smaller (80—100 cm in diameter), 70—95 cm deep and 1.15 m3 in capacity, three of them even reached a diameter of 140 cm and a capacity of 2.5 m3 (Str.21, 160,166).

2.3.3.4. Pit with shrinking side (Str.47)

The diameter of the pit Str.47 reached 2 m, subsequently its capacity was extremely large 5.2 mJ. Probably, based on its differing form, it can be defined as a well.

2.3.4. Pottery kiln

The pottery kiln (Str.161) and its waste pit (Str.160) were excavated in the northern part of the site.

Str.161

Pottery kiln

The feature was observed as a lxl m large burned surface. The chamber of the kiln was not preserved.

The grid lied 30 cm deep from the surface, punched with holes and supported with two columns. Based on the plastered clay layer above a 20 cm thick filling, the kiln was renewed once during its period of use. The new grey plastered layer of 1 cm thickness can be observed also on the burned kiln wall. (Fig. 10)

The pottery kiln from Hernádvécse can be defined as a variant of the Henning А-type pottery kilns. The А-type kilns with supporting columns were spread through late antique influence in Roman Dacia and in pottery workshops of the Barbaricum in the 2nd—3rd centuries AD.17 They were used besides the Henning В-type kilns with a supporting wall in the territories of the Säntana de Mure§—Chernyakhov culture north of the Carpathians in the 4th century AD. The kiln structure in the region to the 5th—6th centuries AD (Henning 1977, 193-194, Abb. 5-6).

17 Gindelf.-IstvAnovits 2011,157. For example: Sebastovce-Barca (LamiovA-SchmiedlovA 1963); Beregovo VI (Kotigoroshko 1995, Fig. 93); Beregsurány-Barátságkert/Luzanka-Sad Drujby (Kotogoroshko 1995, Fig. 75-76); Cicarovce—Vel’ká Mol’va (KaminskA 2005)