A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1977 (Debrecen, 1978)

Régészet, ókortudomány - M. Nepper Ibolya–Sz. Máthé Márta: The Archeological Activity of the Museums in Hajdú-Bihar County in the Years 1972–1976 (A Survey of Finds)

Ibolya M. Nepper-Márta Sz. Máthé THE ARCHEOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF THE MUSEUMS IN HAJDÚ-BIHAR COUNTY IN THE YEARS 1972-1976 (A SURVEY OF FINDS) The survey of finds published in this paper testifies to the intensive archeological activity of the Déri Museum in Debrecen. Unfortunately, during the surveyed period of time there did not work any archeological co-worker in the two other museums of the county, namely in the "Hajdúság Museum" in Hajdúböszörmény and in the "Bihar Museum" in Berettyóújfalu. But the archeologists of the Déri Museum managed the excavations and also the rescue excavations on the collecting territory of these two museums, as well. During the last 5 years excavations and rescue excavations were carried out at 18 find-spots. Of them the works done within the compass of the programme of the "tell-investigation" in the Great Hungarian Plain could be emphasized-Bronze age: Bakonszeg-Kádárdomb, Berettyóújfalu-Szilhalom, Esztár-Fenyvespart, and Gáborján-Csapszékpart. Largescale excavations commenced previously continued in the find-spots at Biharkeresztes-Kisfarkasdomb and Nagy farkasdomb, where further parts of the Dacian-Sarmatian settlement and Germanic cemetery from the period of the Roman Emperors were successfully uncovered and the investigation of Nagyfarkasdomb, which had been continued since 1965, were also completed. As a result of these altogether 236 graves were dug up there, while the number of the uncovered objects of the 2-3rd century settlements is 135. 160 graves from the early and also the late periods of the "Avar age", uncovered at the find-spot of Kaba-Bitózug are of outstanding significance concerning the Migration age. As regards the investigations of the age of the Arpads and the Middle Ages two facts must be mentioned

: one is the uncovering of a little village church presumably built at the turn of the 12-13th centuries and dug up at Hajdúböszörmény-Nagypród-Köveshalom: the other is the archeological uncovering and the art-monument restoring work at Berettyóújfalu-Herpály. As a result of this the relics of a church of a clan-monastery built in the second half of the 12th century were successfully uncovered and made to be presented; and 28 graves of 12th and 13th century were dug up to the South of the Southern tower. 194