Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis 7. (1969)

Párducz Mihály: Szkitakori leletek Heves megyében

SUMMARY SCYTHIAN FINDS IN COUNTY HEVES The article describes finds from two Scythian sites in County Heves. One site is at Szilvásvárad (Figure 1). In two graves the corpses had been buried stretched, lying on the back in the west-east direction (graves 1 and 2), in one grave the remains were scattered. The finds in graves 1 and 2 fully agree with the types of the Scythian culture found in the Great Plain (Tables I and II). That grave 3 belongs also here is rendered probable by the rite of scattered remains. Maybe the persons buried in the west-east oriented graves no. 1 and 2 were descendants of a local people of pre-Scythian culture. The other site is 1,5 kilometres south-east from the village of Tarnabod. Two graves were found there, but finds worth mentioning were only found in the first. Remarkable among these are escutcheon-shaped scales of bronze and iron that belonged to a Scythian shirt of mail. Including these finds we know of similar finds (15-18) from four Scythian sites in the Carpathian Basin (Ártánd, Törökszentmiklós grave no. 90, and Piski grave no. III). Based on Hungarian and South Russian analogies, the bronze and iron scales in the grave of Tarnabod may have been interred not e arlier than at the turn of the 6th and 5th century В. C. At further two sites at Tarnabod, at the southern confines of the village and in the ruined area of Báb village which is about 1,5 kilometres west from the former, two daggers were found which are illustrated in the article (20-27). Mihály Párducz 44