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English Summaries Máté Szabó Roman Road on the Confines of Erd The Department of Archaeology at the University of Pécs between 13rd-16th June 2012 carried out an excavation using the sondage method on the track of the main road running from Erd to Százhalombatta (in Pest county). The research was in connection with the Central European Danube Limes World Heritage Site (WHS) programme ending in December 2011, as a result of which the preparation of a nomination documentation of the Hungarian section of the Roman frontier defense system was prepared. The road between Erd and Százhalombatta in the first round was omitted from the nomination, because it was thought by the programme committee that the data concerning its dating is rather dubious for a World Heritage nomination. The municipal council of Erd expressing its commitment to the WH S programme, however, urged a more extensive research. After the several field surveys completed by a systematic investigation with metal detector and the failure of the geophysical research of the watchtower Campona 2 which was suspected to be on the Érd plateau the sondage excavation of the road took place. On a less damaged part of the choosen road section the excavation was carried out in a 1.5-metre wide and a 13-metre long test trench. During the exploration a relief map of the excavated area and its environment was also prepared. The road appeared in the depth of 5-10 centimetres under the current surface. In its upper layer modern garbage was found, while in the middle of the roadway a thin loessy layer was discovered. The eastern edge of the road could be vaguely detected, since it was partially ploughed away. The distance between the edges paved with irregularly shaped limestones was around 4 metres. Between these stones a fill made of gravel was observed. On the basis of its crosssection, the roadway survived in the width of20-25 centimetres. Under the road, on the other hand, a 5.3-metre wide and 35-centimetre deep mixed, limy road-bed was laid, in the middle of which a deepened line was identified. This might have even been the furrow (sulcus) marking out the road, but in order to strengthen this supposition, the survey unfortunately yielded too little data about it. On the eastern side of the road, about 3.5 metres from the edge, the trench of the road was found.The feature could be identified in the depth of 0.5 metre from the current surface, and its deepest point was even 30 centimetres deeper. Its widest identifiable dimension was 1.4 metre, and its cross-section proved that it was digged in a pointless ,,V”-form. In its homogeneous, undisturbed fill a Roman boot nail was unearthed. To the west from the road, the deepened modern motorway might have destroyed the earlier Roman trench, thus no traces of that was discovered. Unfortunately, the meagre research funds allowed us an insight only at one point into the history of the roadsection, and even there it was not affordable to search for a possible, more distant trench (or trenches). Nevertheless, the uncovered section that survived in a rather good condition shows parallel in its size and structure with those road sections excavated northward and southward, at Nagytétény and at Százhalombatta. In addition, its trench together with the Roman boot nail found in its fill support its Roman dating. As a result of the excavation, the Roman dating of the road running through the Érd plateau could be established and thus as a section of the Roman limes road it was added to the Ripa Pannonica World Heritage nomination list. 4 174
