Gyöngyössy Márton (szerk.): Perspectives on the Past. Major Excavations in County Pest (Szentendre, 2008)
(568-81 1/829 AD) Various settlement features of an Avar village were uncovered on the outskirts of Nagytarcsa in an area known as Malomárokfeletti-dűlő during the excavations preceding the construction of the north-eastern section of the MO Ring Road. Houses, ditches, various pits and open-air ovens were brought to light in the 22,416 m2 large investigated area. The settlement’s overall layout corresponds to the period’s norm, made up of a square or rectangular sunken house on plots enclosed by a ditch. The stone oven in the eastern corner ЩШ of the buildings indicates that most of them were residential structures. A repeatedly renewed baking plate of a secondarily built oven above the original one was found in the corner of House 40. The post-holes suggest that these houses had a gable roof resting on a ridge pole supported by forked posts. A round area with a diameter of 18 meters enclosed by a circular ditch probably functioned as an animal pen. The village’s inhabitants used hand-thrown vessels. Many fragments of baking lids came to light, together with quern stones, some of which were secondarily reused for the construction of the ovens. The metal finds include a well preserved iron knife and an iron buckle, as well as rectangular, perforated iron plates, parts of a lamellar armour. • Klára Kővári 1. Iron knife 2. Iron buckle 3. Sunken house with a stone oven of the Avar period 4. Plan of the excavation 5. The stone oven 6. Iron knife, buckle and iron plates of a lamellar armour 7 7. Hand-thrown pot An Avar village at Nagytarcsa
