Bujdosné Pap Györgyi (szerk.): Agria 49. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2016)

Patay Pál: Régészkedtem Heves megyében is

site and the grounds of a medieval site in Kisköre. This, however, did not result in any significant discoveries. I also conducted some smaller excavations in Ráboly on the borders of Poroszló at a Neolithic / early Copper Age site.

In 1969 and 1971 I took part in a larger and more successful excavation at Aponhát, a site in Poroszló beside the bridge over the River Tisza. Its publication became the responsibility of Gábor Szabó (ELTE, the Institute of Archaeology).

In 1875 three Roman bricks entered the collection of the National Museum. They had come from Gombospuszta near Hatvan. It was a stroke of enormous luck when, in 1966, Sándor Soproni and I found the site from which the bricks had come. Soproni went on to excavate the burgus foundations of a watch tower built by the Romans during the IV. century, which had been surrounded by a stone wall. An Eger newspaper carried the story, in which the journalist chose to give his piece the headline “Castra Bonaventura” on account of Soprani’s whimsical decision to write this title on the archaeological site plan (Bonaventura had been the Christian name of the commander of the garrison at Gombospuszta).

I also went in search of bells in Heves County. Indeed, I purchased a damaged one in Váraszó dating from around 1700 on behalf of the National Museum’s collection. From the village of Balaton I bought a medieval bell the inscription of which as well as the date of casting had previously been wrongly published. I was able to establish that the bell had in fact been made in about 1523.

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