Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis 16.-17. (1978-1979)

Kozák Károly: Az egri vár Árpád-kori temetőjének feltárása I.

be divided into further layers. But because of the small number of graves and of considerations connected with the depth, we will not do this. This is why this became the most populous layer in this segment. Compared to the lower layers, it seems that important changes had taken place concerning direction of the rows. (Pict. 14.) The remains of wood and nails, prove unambiguously that the burials were burials in coffins. Between the graves 205—206 a silver coin was found, which was minted in the time of King Kálmán (1095—1116). This money did not belong to the grave, so it can be evaluated only from the point of view of the continuous use of the cemetery. The buckle of belt and a piece of marble, which were found in grave No. 239, raise the possibility of extending the use of the middle of the Xlllth century — probably till the invasion of the Mongols. It is very likely that the piece of marble got into the grave after an bigger devastation. In this part of the cemetery (3rd layer), in the 36 évaluable graves there are approximately 14 women, 10 men and we have succeeded in determining the age and sex of two adults and 7 children. Till the analysis of further graves belonging to the cemetery, these facts allow us to get a break down by sex and age of the inhabitants in the Xlth—XIIth centuries of the inhabitants of the castle settlement. On the western side of the disclosed segment — maybe an „ossarium" — we have made some finds, which eventually could be important from the point of view of determining ages. The key and the bracelet made of electron belong to the characteristic relics of the Xlllth century. So these finds, with the ones already mentioned, determine the time of use of the cemetery on basis of the preliminary evaluation, to be from the 1st half of the Xlth century till the middle of the XIHth century. APPENDIX Almost all skeletons were in a very bad state and this rendered the determination of sex and age more difficult and made the metric and morphological analysis almost impossible. On basis of the existing metrical values and morphological characteristics, two groups can be outlined. (Dolichomorf and brachymorf.) Among pathological changes, the following could be observed; by men the spondysis deformens, by children cribra orbitalia, appearing on the skull, the alamagna, condylus occipitalis could be observed in the appearance of poroticus and cribroticus. Very many changes can be observed on the teeth (radiculitis, abrasion, the formation of granutoma, atrophia, etc.). The state of the material searched till now, is insufficient to enable further deductions or suggestions. (B. Antónia Marcsik) 170