Rácz Tibor Ákos: A múltnak kútja. Fiatal középkoros regészek V. konferenciájának tanulmánykötete - A Ferenczy Múzeum kiadványai, A. sorozat: Monográfiák 3. (Szentendre, 2014)
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English Summaries Nikoletta Lukács Early Medieval Settlement Fragment at the Borders of Orosháza The find spot is located north of the town in between the roads leading to Nagyszénás and Gádoros. The excavation was carried out between the autumn 1997 and the summer 1998 and was led by Imre Szatmári. Although he wrote a short archaeological report on the work he had fulfilled and describe the plot, the processing of the entire site remained undone. The multi layered settlement was unearthed during the preliminary excavations that preceded the second phase of the construction of the bypass of Orosháza on the road number 47. The surface of the site excavated was 26,500 square metres. Altogether 144 objects were identified from which 17 was from the Modern Times. Among the archaeological objects there was a Sarmatian house and a Sarmatian well. Based on the preliminary study, four houses, one outer furnace and two ditch-systems were dated to the eight and ninth centuries, while five houses and one workshop are from the ninth century. Furthermore, there were eight more houses, three farm buildings, four pits, ten workshops, and eight ditches from the eleventh century At the present stage of the processing of the findings, three phases of the site usage were separated. The traces of an eighth-, a ninth-, and an eleventh-century settlement were observed. This study presents the ninth and eleventh century settlement fragments, but the Avar Age remains are also under investigation at the moment. There were no other types of objects that could be used for dating than the ceramics that were found. Therefore, the three above stages were separated on the basis of the relative chronology and the variations of the ceramic objects. The structural differences of the houses, furnaces, farm buildings, pits, and ditches clearly demonstrated the different periods. Apart from that, the processing of the ceramics finds also contributed to the chronology. Though dating hand framed and hand pottered ceramics is nowadays problematic, it was still possible two separate three horizons. To achieve a more accurate analysis, the natural scientific investigations are already in process, but their results are not yet available. 453
