Gyöngyössy Márton (szerk.): Perspectives on the Past. Major Excavations in County Pest (Szentendre, 2008)
The Budaörs area was settled by the people of the Urnfield culture during the Late Bronze Age, as shown by their settlement found in the area known as Kamaraerdei-dűlő by the Hosszúréti Stream. A few storage pits and refuse pits of the settlement were uncovered; the former often contained up to six intact vessels. Larger pots were often covered with bowls. Few residential buildings were found - a few larger, circular pits can perhaps be interpreted as houses. One of these pits yielded a pair of bone skates, semi-finished bone tools and several fine, black polished graphitic vessels with facetted rim. Two pits contained kiln wasters indicating local pottery manufacture. The settlement had a dispersed layout, meaning that it was occupied unevenly. The settlement’s nucleus lay near the stream, among and under the Roman Age stone buildings. The early pits lay scattered in the settlement’s eastern part, while the later ones in the central part. Roughly 200 settlement features were uncovered during the excavations in 2002 and 2003. The urn burials, after which this culture was named, were represented by a small cluster of twenty burials at Budaörs. The ashes were generally placed in a larger vessel, which was then usually covered with a channelled bowl, although the bowl was sometimes placed beside the urn. Ornaments are rare finds in these burials, made up of a bronze ring or a few beads at the most. The vessels from the settlement and the burials represent the typical wares of the late Hallstatt A-B1 period of the Middle Danubian Urnfield culture (corresponding to the Vál culture in Transdanubia). The ceramic inventory shares numerous similarities with the 1. Pair of bone skates 2. Excavated urn burial 3. Late Bronze Age storage jar 4. Urn and bowl decorated with bosses and channelling from the burials 5. Storage pit with vessels velatice and the succeeding Podoli—Stillfried cultures of Austria and Moravia. % Katalin Ottomanyi Urn burials at Budaörs
