Balogh Zoltán – Fodor Miklós Zoltán (szerk.): Neograd 2013 - A Dornyay Béla Múzeum Évkönyve 37. (Salgótarján, 2014)
Régészet - Péntek Attila–Zandler Krisztián: Nyíltszíni levéleszközös telep Legénd-Rovnyán
the nearby Szeletian site at Szécsénke-Kis-Ferenc-hegy14, a greater but broken piece resembles the Micoquian-Bábonyien pieces of the Legénd-Káldy-tanya15. There are 6 pieces (13,04 %) in the category of the sidescrapers. Two double sidescrapers were made of „Szeletian felsitic porphyry”. From the two simple sidescrapers with straight working edge, one piece was made of nummulitic chert16, 1 piece of radiolarite. Two large pieces were made of quartzite. The last tool category of other tools or worked pieces contains 19 pieces altogether (41,30 %). Of these tools only few pieces could be identified precisely, the most pieces are broken. Here we want to emphasize the presence of two aurignacien-like retouched blades. The one piece has an oblique distal end with two notches. The two backed microblades seem to belong to the Upper Palaeolithical Gravettian culture. These finds should be correlated to the Gravettian site at Romhány-Diós17, which lies about 8-10 kilometers west from our site. There are some Gravettian sites in the valley of the Galga- river, e.g. at Püspökhatvan18, at Erdőtarcsa-Daróci hegy19 and Csővár-Arany-hegy with unpublished archaeological material. The younger Prehistoric industry is a typical blade industry. There are a total of 15 blades or microblades. The stone tool assemblage consists of 8 tools of varied content. There are two endscrapers made on flake, a broken working edge of an endscraper, a circular endscraper, a thumbnail (unguiform) scraper, a denticulated blade, a truncated blade and a retouched flake. The most endscrapers are worked rough-and-ready, they are somehow ad hoc, spontaneous tools. In the assemblage there are 19 pieces of cores of diverse stages belonging possibly to the younger Prehistoric industry. The raw material of the cores is variable, 10 pieces are of limnic quarzite, 3 pieces of siliceous pebble, 2 pieces of obsidian and 4 pieces of radiolarite. Except the 2 obsidian lamella- (microblade-) cores the others are all flake cores. Summary The artefacts collected from the surface are not suitable for a more detailed cul-tural classification, which is mainly due to the few number of tools. We regard the Palaeolithic material as inhomogeneous and a possible explanation for this fact may be the optimal topographical situation of the site. On the opposite side of the valley of the Halyagos-streamlet, on the Halyagos- hegy, about 750 meters from our site at an altitude of cca. 375 m.a.s.l. there is an archaeological site with unpublished material, with characteristic tools. However, we think that these two sites had the same strategic importance as “high-stands” or “watchposts” in controlling the movement of the games in the valley. Along the Halyagos-streamlet on both sides we find some localities with similar archaeological material and stray finds, 14 PÉNTEK-ZANDLER 2013, 41. 15 MARKÓ-PÉNTEÍC 2003-2004, Fig.3. 16 MARKÓ-KÁZMÉR 2004. 17 SIMÁN 1993; T. DOBOSI 2011 18 CS. BALOGH-T. DOBOSI 1995. 19 ZANDLER 2008. 45
