Petres Éva, F.: Neolithic graves at Bicske - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 9. (Székesfehérvár, 1959)

in settlements the mixed occurance might simply mean the continuity of the settlement in such a manner that the mixing of the material within a grave may be ulterior, in wich case there is nothing unusual and it is no absolute proof of simultaneity.

Conclusions can be drawn with greater assurance from the closed collection of finds the graves. Unfortunately neolithic tombs are very rare in Transdanubia, apart from the cemeteries of Lengyel culture belonging already to the aeneolithic age.

Nagytétény (Budapest, Xllnd district, Fig. I. No. 3.). Height 1.65 m, lenght of skeleton: 1,20 m. Srunken, badly preserved skeleton. With attached vessels belonging to the Bükk II, Zseliz, Bánát and late Tisza cultures.33

Two tombs are known from the territory of the Szob-Öregfalu fields (Pest County, Fig. I. No. I.).34 According to the description the tombs have been discovered on the settlement.35

Tomb 1. (tomb A of the repert). Land belonging to A. Dutka.

Height: 60 cm. Skeleton belonging probably to woman of about 40. The disposition seems to indicate that the corpse had been pushed into the refuse pit: broken cranial bones on top, jaw-bones, cervical vertebrae and ribs below, hip bone, upper arm, forearm, underneath and thereunder the thigh bones. Feet and shins missing. Surrounding material from the heap of rubbish: pottery of Zseliz type; fragment of a larger red vessel with nail-nipped Band; half of bombed Zseliz vessel with scratched pattern, with small handle on the schoulder, height 4,8; half of pierced stone axe, 2 pieces, height 8,5 and 4,7; cylindrical clay object height 4; flint blade height 4; unretouched high scraper. Dia. 4,1, inventory no. Hungarian National Museum 1938/33. Beside the above clay report mentions a tubular foot dish illustrated in a drawing. Bottom dia. 16,4.

Tomb 2. (originally marked G). Plot of Z. Csigás. Height: 60 cm.

Ransacked tomb. The skeleton is told to have been shrunk. Shin-bones have not been found. Appendices: spherical dish with four small knobs on the swell; jasper blade; fragment of rugh, thick-walled vessel.

The Szob tombs seem older than the Bicske tombs, the Zseliz type dominates. Burial in the refuse pit is also characteristic rather of the earlier period of the neolithic age.36 To pieces speak in favour of the probability of a later date, the tubular legged dish and the presents of the small dish with knob. Their value as an indication of date is diminished by their occurence in a refuse pit and in a disturbed tomb.

Békásmegyer (County of Pest, Fig.37 I. No. 2.). On the settlement furnishing a whole series of neolithic cultures, the shrunken skeleton of a child has been found in the vicinity of house and refuse pit (ditch

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