Petres Éva, F.: Neolithic graves at Bicske - István Király Múzeum közelményei. A. sorozat 9. (Székesfehérvár, 1959)
T he King Stephen Museum of Székesfehérvár organized several excavations during the 1930s (1931—33) at Bicske (County of Fejér) (Fig. I. A. No. 4.) where neolithic tombs and stretches of settlements were discovered. The find spot is in the vineyard on the Galagonyás hill outside the village.1 These tombs have already repeatedly been dealt with in literature, without howewer, entering upon a closer interpretation of the subject.2 Since neolithic tombs in North-Transdanubia are not numerous, and, on the other hand, the chronology of the neolithic age is far from being determined, a publication of the Bicske tombs may be an important contribution towards the solution of the problem. Several tombs have been destroyed by earthwork in the vineyard before the excavations. On second hand information these are supposed to have been nine in number, placed in three rows.3 Excavations organized by the Museum brought to light seven further tombs.1 Accordingly the total number of burial places known up to day may be put to sixteen. The following tombs have been cleared in the excavations. Tomb 1. (Borderline between the Keller and the Reinhardt vineyards, 12 m from the roadway.) Height: 2 m, lenght of skeleton: 1,60 m, position: SE—NW. Skeleton of woman lying on her left side, right forearm bent on the pelvis, left arm and legs extended. Beside the head (at 32 cm, at a height of 18 cm) a vessel on feet (Fig. II. No. 1.). Upper part forming double truncated cone with shoulders in a sharp angle. On the shoulder three small knobs, one of them reconstructed. Reposing in three knobby legs, standing sligthly apart. Colour deep grey. H‘: 10,5, BRD: 8,8, MW: 10,5, BD: 5,9, IN: 8894. — Dish forming double truncated cone. (Fig. II. No. 2.) Sharply broken shoulder with three small knobs. Dark grey, with traces of red paint on the brim. H: 7,2, BRD: 9,0, MW: 10,0, BD: 4,0, IN': 8893. — Small fragment of paint between the feet. IN: 8938. — 50 cm above the skeleton two chips of flint. IN: 8937. Tomb 2. (2 m to the S from the boundary-line of the two vineyards, 16,5 m from the roadway. Fig. V.) H: 1,80 m, position E—W. Skeleton of man lying on his back, skull turned to the left, right forearm bent to the pelvis. Legs fixed at right angle in the pelvis, extended. — In the right hand an antler hoe. — A slightly arched piece, with a perpendicular bore for the handle. One end broken. Length: 22,0, Dia: 4,5, IN: 8873.
