Szilasi Ágota, H. (szerk.): Annales Musei Agriensis. Agria LII. (Eger, 2019)
Tóth Zoltán: Kora újkori temető Dormánd határában
Zoltán Tóth EARLY MODERN CEMETERY AT THE OUTSKIRTS OF DORMÁND The Dormánd-Hanyipuszta site is located in a flat area, on the northern edge of the Hungarian Great Plain. The archaeological site is halfway between Dormánd and Tenk, NW of the Hanyi chapel at approx. 100 m. It covers both sides ofmain road no. 31. Between 18 May and 3 October 2015, led by Zoltán Tóth, the Dobó Castle Museum provided archeological supervision at the site and carried out demolition work as part of its expert observation activities, in connection with the construction works which involved the widening of main road no. 31. We were able to work at the construction site on both sides of the road, in ditches with an average depth of 2 m. The archaeological investigations focused on the W-NW edge, as well as the middle of the site. The archeological intensity was high on both sides of the road, therefore it can be assumed that the site continues in all directions. Site edges were only detectable on the southern area of the road section, from the direction of Tenk, as well as on the northern part, from the direction of Dormánd. In total 88 archaeological features were registered and unearthed in the excavated area. These included parts of houses, pits, ditches and an oven. The exact functions of the archaeological features were often unidentifiable, because some of these objects were situated outside of the area that could be excavated. The objects can be dated at the second half of the Árpádian Age and the Late Medieval-Early Modern Age period, that is between the 12th-13th and the 18th centuries. Most of the Medieval and Early Modern objects included large amounts of potteries and animal bones. 10 graves were discovered by the experts of the Castle Museum at the site. Apart from one child, all the others were buried in coffins, which were in a fairly good condition, considering their archaeological age. There were no grave goods in the graves, however we managed to document several items of clothing woven with metallic threads, as well as two headdresses. The fills of the graves contained secondary finds, which were Árpádian Age pottery fragments, suggesting that these graves could not have been dug out earlier than the 14th- 15th centuries. However, based on the condition of the items of clothing and the coffins, these graves are more likely to be dated at the Early Modern Age, the 17th-18thcenturies. 378
