A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Ethnographica 5. (Szeged, 2005)

Törőcsik István: Régészeti és néprajzi kályhaleletek Szegedről

Archeological and Ethnographie Stove Findings in Szeged by ISTVÁN TÖRŐCSIK Concerning the stove findings in the territory of Szeged, we may conclude: their shapes and technological level reflected the quality of a second-rate manufacturing center up to the 18

,h century. In the period before the Turkish occupation we may assume, that a stove making center of regional importance functioned in Szeged. The development was blocked during the period of the Turkish occupation; mainly simpler forms lived on locally. At the beginning of modern times, stove making as a trade was flourishing for a short while, nonetheless our data is rather sparse on this field. Archeological excavation on the territory of the three Medieval town centers may still bring up more stove ruins. These ruins could not be reused in building, nor could they be used in lime-burning (unlike carvings made from limestone), thus the material of broken stoves was most likely put in a refuse pit, or perhaps was placed under the raised level of flooring. The collected material exemplifies very clearly, how important it is for archeological excavations carried out in the territory of a city to have a thorough knowledge of certain fields of ethnography. This is so, as a matter of course, also the other way round. Archeological results may be useful also for researchers of ethnography (in our case for those studying folk pottery). Moreover, the deficiencies of written sources and that of ethnographical collecting started too late, could be completed to a certain extent by the material collected following archeological methods. The 18

th century may be regarded as a periphery for the different disciplines, thus its extensive research may result in new knowledge of significant amount. 43