A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 24-25. (Békéscsaba, 2003)

Hadak Útján XIII. A népvándorlás kor fiatal kutatóinak konferenciája Gyula, 2002. szeptember 17–19. - S. Perémi Ágota: Avar-age findings from Kékkút and grave no. 99 of the Balatonudvari-Fövenyes cemetery

Avar kori leletek Kékkútról és a Balatonudvari-Fövenyes temető 99. sírja Avar-age findings from Kékkút and grave no. 99 of the Balatonudvari-Fövenyes cemetery - Ágota S. Peremi Resume The findings found in Kékkút came to the museum sporadically in various times (figure 1). We have got data on approx. 12-13 graves. The graves had got southeast-northwest orientation and formed two grave-lines. In the Kékkút findings, pieces of more interest and even in Avar-age memories relatively rarely traceable, are the small crosses (figure 4. 1, 2a-f). These are pendants of the pieces found in the close graveyards of Káptatlantó and Zamárdi. In addition to the coffin crosses, there are more findings indicating a connection between the cemeteries of Zamárdi and Kékkút (figure 2. 1-2, figure 3. 2-5, 8). On the ground of the parallels, the findings are to be dated back to the end of the 7

th century - beginning of the 8

th century. Based on the small number of and sporadic findings, it can be stated that during the middle-late Avar-age a most probably Christian community lived in Kékkút, being in close relation with the population buried in the Avar graveyards of Káptalantó and Zamárdi located nearby, going back to a similar age and showing similar findings (figure 4. 3). The Balatonudvari-Fövenyes cemetery came to the surface in spring of 2002. In the upper layer we found 10—11

th century graves with west-east orientation, under which there were late Avar-age, 9

th century burials with northwest - southeast orientation. During the excavation we explored 118 burials. The burials dated back to the 10-11

th century were relatively poor in supplements. In most cases bronze Sended or simple earrings, spiral, circle or brace rings, buttons, pearls, two-edged arrow-heads came to light. In the Avar-age graves characteristic findings of the late period were found. The 10-11

th century graves did not subvert the earlier ones. There are no traces of any "mixture" of the two populations. Out of the burials explored up till now, we call the attention to the grave no. 99 containing, in addition to typical late Avar-age supplements, also astragalos bones, unusual in the Avar-age. In our country this sort of things were known primarily in graves of the Hungarian conquest. The 7 pes of sheep bones found in Balatonudvari and the pieces of grave 662 of Kölked-Feketekapu cemetery В are the first to prove that the game spread in a large area since ancient times were not unknown to the Avar people either. S. Peremi Agota Laczkó Dezső Múzeum 8200 Veszprém, Erzsébet sétány 1. peremi@vmmuzeum. hu 287