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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observed in case of the reredorter (the communal latrine) built next to the eastern facade, the tower, and the revetment wall inside the cellar in the southern room of the east wing (Table 3, Figs. 1-5; Table 4, Fig. 5). The reredorter had a rectangular shape, with a 2.2-metre depth, with its north-western wall built on the ground (Table 3, Fig. 1). The revetment wall of the cellar was also a later addition, with an entrance leading through the northern wall of the southern room. Along the axis of the building they built a cistern, for which the water supply was provided by the Tettye spring through ceramic pipes. The side walls of the cistern were built of clay, next to a horseshoe shaped wall structure. This structure might have served as the foundation of a wall fountain that could have functioned at once as an overflow, the sluice of which controlled a forty-centimetre high water level (Table 3, Fig. 7; Table 4, Fig. 1). Along the eastern wall of the west wing, there were traces of several open air fireplaces found in a row (Table 5, Fig. 1). Architectural features observed here were really simple. We might think of the north-western wall of the reredorter, the stairs of the cellar or the clay walls of the cistern. Archaeological observations were confirmed by scientific analyses in all respects.

Due to the systematic excavation and documentation, the fills of the features could have been almost always dated with the help of coins. Thanks to this, we may conclude that the building was abandoned sometime after 1649 by the Muslim monks who previously lived here. The fills of the reredorter and of the cistern are dated to this period. We hypothesize that the monastery was abandoned as a result of the siege of Pécs in 1664 that finally liberated the town.

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