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packed stones, has come to light. In the soil of the mound, in the lowest third ot the tumulus, there lay the sekeleton on its back in a cist grave. The graveiurniture consisted of a two-handled amphora, identical with that found at the stake. Fig. 2. Markovica (Ducalovic district) 213 A tumulus cemetery with a structure similar to the former ones and inhumation graves {Fig. 2, no. 2). In two burial mounds the description mentions iron spears too, but we are interested in the third (mound 6) which yielded a stone battle-axe and a wart-ornamented two-handled vase. Zarub (Dracic district) 24 A tumulus with two graves. Grave-furniture: a bronze dagger, a bone implement and three vessels, regarded as Roman ones by the leader of the excavations. Also 2 bronze spiral beads were found at the side of one skeleton. Judged by the published tiny sketch, the vessels: a jar of a globular body and a cylindrical neck with two large strap handles, a pear-shaped jug and a bowl of the shape a spherical segment, may well belong to the Early Bronze Age dagger, the bronze torques, the two spiral beads 4,5 cm and 4,2 cm long, and the whetstone(?). Klinci (Petnica district) 25 The extended skeleton lay in a tumulus, in a cist composed of flat slabs. Of the grave-goods we may only reckon with the bronze torques drawn on the neck of the sekeleton in the sketch and another similar piece, disregarding the evidently Late Bronze Age pair of bracelets and the Slav earring. The bracelets have been inventoried separately from the 2 torqueses. Z a b a r i (Petnica district) 2 * Tumulus cemetery at various spots of the village. On the Brankovic nolding 3 mounds were discovered, on of them contained a humation grave. On the I lie holding two mounds came to light, packed with stone 23 Ibid. p. 8. 24 M. VALTROVIC: Starinar 10 (1893) 78-80, Figs 3-4. D. GARASANIN- Katalog metala (Belgrad 1954) 43. 25 M. VALTROVIC: op. cit. 76-77, Figs 1-2; D. GARASANIN: op. cit. 13-14, PI. 53 nos 1-4, itemizes the torqueses and inside, one of them hid a contracted skeleton covered with stones' (cist). On the Stevanovic holding stone covering and potsherds were found in the upper layer of the mound. Robajé (Rajkovic district) 27 Two tumuli have been excavated. The upper layer of one contained potsherds, the inside hid a humation burial with a vessel and a stone battle-axe as grave-goods. There is a strong probability in the suggestion of M. V. Garasaniinï* that burials, of the MarkovicaNegrisori type will also be found on the left bank of the Drina, in Bosnia. His view is well supported by the stone cist humation graves enumerated by him. and the burial mounds with stone battle-axes presented by A. Benac and В. Согпс. 29 3. Extension, settlements, cemeteries, rites In spite of the more or less significant varieties observed in pottery, the archaelogical material of the Somogyvár group is fairly uniform. Its unity is borne out not only by its material culture but by its specific new-fashioned burial rite in the first place. For the time being it is not easy to define the extension of the Somogyvár group. The settlement (tribal) boundary or boundaries of a people of a given culture may only be defined by the self-standing settlements and cemeteries with certainty. However, their number is rather slight. According to our present knowledge the settlement of the group may be attached to two separate territories. A. The northern part of Western-Hungary from the Pilis—Gerecse—Vértes—Balaton line to the eastern edge of Burgenland, the lake Fertő; the entire Western Transdanubia (possibly joined by Slovenia from the South — West); in Southern Transdanubia the southern parts of Somogy and Tolna counties situated to the west of the Sió, and the north —western half of Baranya county. B. Western Serbia. The surroundings of Valjevo, to the East of the middle stretch of the Drina till the region of the Serbian (or little) Morava. Later researches will extend this area towards the West probably; it is to be expected that our group will appear on the left bank of the Drina in the environment of Rogatica. The more than 300 km gap between the two blocks of settlement cannot be bridged yet. Though we know undecorated one-handled jugs, related to the leading forms of our group in some Syrmian settlements of the Vucedol bracelets as the grave-furniture of one grave conditionally. 26 M. VAbTROVlC: op. Cit. 78-79. 27 Ibid. 81. 28 M. V. GARASANIN: op. cit. p. 93, note 498. 29 A. BENAC—B. COVlC: Glasinac I. (Sarajevo 1956) pp. 62-63. 45
