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Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Éry Kinga, K.: Reconstruction on the tenth Century Population of Sárbogárd on the Basis of Archaeoloogical and Anthropological Data. – A sárbogárdi X. századi közösség rekonstrukciója régészeti és embertani adatok alapján. VIII–IX, 1967–68. p. 93–147. t. XXVI–XLV.
Fig. 11. Frequency of the three groups of finds in 10-1 lth c. cemeteries (b) In Sárbogárd the following objects belong to Group I: knife, whetstone, strike-a-light, flint, stirrup, bit, bow, arrow-head, quiver, harness, bridle (of horse), girth buckle. The second group of finds includes : simple hair ring, hair ring ending in an „s", earring, bead, drilled cowrie shell and sweet water snail, metal necklace, clothing mount, plate disk, bracelet, ring, button with ear, simple belt with iron buckle, belt with mounts, sabretache. The third group of finds contains the complete body of a horse, animal bone, half-moon shaped pendant, browngirdled snail, egg and flaked arrow-head. The group of ritual objects also includes a clay vessel and flint in horse grave C, but since these do not originate from human graves they are not included in this analysis. Finds which did not come under the three main headings were unearthed from one of the children's graves : three sheep astragalus serving as toys. In Sárbogárd the first group of finds comprised 9.8%, the second 25.2% and the third 18.6% of the graves. Thus in most instances clothing accessories or jewelry were included with the dead, secondly came objects of ritual significance and economic implements or weapons were included in the least number of instances. Now let us compare our cemeteries according to the above viewpoints. Figure 10 introduces the frequency of the occurrence of the three groups of finds for each cemetery. It may be seen that the particular distribution of the groups of finds listed for Sárbogárd is the most similar to Povád. Figure 11, in which each individual group of the three mentioned is stated for the cemeteries, much better illustrates these ratios. In Sárbogárd a relatively low percentage of the graves contained economic implements and weapons, but this difference is not too significant for the rest of the series. It is rather striking, on the other hand, that the Sárbogárd community has a relatively small amount of clothing or jewelry. This fact either indicates that the population dressed or buried their dead more poorly that other contemporary communities or that in Sárbogárd the use of metal objects for clothing ornaments and ornamenting the dead with jewelry were not customs. The most noteworthy phenomenon is the very great frequency of burying ritual objects in Sárbogárd. Although the extent does not exceed the values yielded by the two early tenth century cemeteries, they are higher than the rest of the cemeteries. Now let us briefly examine in the same Figure the characteristics of the different groups of finds in the ten cemeteries. The diagram of group I very clearly illustrates the gradual and quick reduction of the material finds from the 10th to the 12th centuries. Its cause —as it was mentioned several times —must be sought in the conversion to Christianity. Similarly the diagram of the ritual objects also shows a great tendency to reduce, but here the implications are probably somewhat different than in the former cases. Although the Christian rites supplanted the objects of pagan rites in burials, they enriched them by new ones at the same time (e.g., including crosses, coins into the graves). The spread of Christianity had the least influence on the occurrence of items of clothing and jewelry in the graves. This was probably mainly affected by economic reasons although, as it was stated, we cannot overlook the possibility of the different character of the rites or habitation. As a next step let us examine the frequency of the occurrence of the three groups of finds in the graves of men, women and children (Figure 12). In Sárbogárd the objects of group I were found rather among the graves of men than women and they were totally lacking in the graves of children. The objects of group II were found mainly among women and children and less frequently among men. Group III was most frequently found in the graves of children, less so among the graves of men and the least among those of women. The sequence of the groups of finds in Sárbogárd (I—III —II) is in case of men unparalleled by other cemeteries. The sequence of the groups of finds from women graves (II —I —III) matches that of Szakáihát, while the sequence of the groups of finds for children (II —III) agrees with that of Kenézlő and Szentlászló. : 101
