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Régészeti tanulmányok - Kertész Róbert - Pálóczi Horváth András - Ádám Márk: A középkori Tenyő és a Szent Péter-monostor azonosítása
TISICUM XXVI. Róbert Kertész- András Pálóczi Horváth- Márk Ádám The identification of the medieval Tenyő and St Peter Monastery The first documented written mention of Tenyő in a charter dates back to 1299, but based upon the location name it could have come to existence during 11th-12th century. The settlement developed in the northern part of a large piece of land called Pél or Pelő donated to the Garamszentbenedek monastery in 1075, which is mirrored in the denomination as late as the mid-15th century (1439,1442, “Tenyő, also called Pelő”). Until the 15th century, it belonged to the Garamszentbenedek monastery, however from the end of the 14th century until the middle of the 15th, it was rented by the Cuman people who had moved here from Csunegyháza. In the middle of the 15th century southern Slavic people appeared here as well. The village remained populated until the late 17th century, and it was emptied at the beginning of the 18th. The location of the St Peter monastery of Tenyő and the medieval village could not be determined until recently. Due to the archaeological finding excavated in recent past, unexpectedly it became possible to topographically identify the location of both the monastery and the medieval Tenyő village. The GPS coordinates of the gilded red copper graven ornamented procession cross dating back to the second half of the 11th century, and the surroundings in which the cross was unearthed could be identified with the data recorded in a report of the Buda chapter of 8th May, 1339 describing the area between Tenyőmonostora and Szajol. During the site survey, we collected a variety of Árpád age and late Middle Age archaeological source material in the close vicinity of the procession cross, among them chaff brick fragments. Since the topographical identification of the monastery and the medieval village is closely linked together, the settlement situated right next to it can be identified as Tenyő village. The settlement consisted of at least two or three major units: the central part, which included the parish church, was situated on an island in the flood area of the Tisza, the other two east of that at the foot of Tenyőhalom or in the close vicinity of the monastery. Based upon this, one can establish that the medieval village of Tenyő and its brick monastery were located in the southern part of today’s Szajol on the high shore on the left bank of the Alcsi-Holt-Tisza, while the settlement itself could be localised on an island of the flood-basin of the Tisza. 212
