Somogyi Múzeumok Közleményei 16. (2004)
Magyar Kálmán: A kaposvári vár területén végzett legújabb régészeti kutatások eredményei
222 The latest results of the archeological research in the area of the castle of Kaposvár KÁLMÁN MAGYAR Our archeological research between 24 July and 19 August 2000 in the former inner-castle area, nowadays in the area of the NOSTRA, the Southern Transdanubian Corn Trading Ltd. made it clear that the tower with 12 x 10.5 m groundspace and 2.5— 2.8 m wide groundwall was built in the early 14th century. The Western wing and the Western wall of the Eastern Wing in the Inner-Castle were probably built also about at the same time. All of these brick walls had a stone foundation and were 1.5 m wide. The pavement made of stone slabs was 70 cm below the current groundlevel. The Eastern wall of the Eastern wing and the Southern wall of the Southern wing might have been built after 1555, in the Turkish Period. Both walls are 11.4 m wide. By data of the excavation, the earliest centre of the fortified castle with an inner-tower built of stone and brick on a pile foundation was 42 x 42 meter. This was expanded by a 4meter wing in the Southern direction not later than in the 15th century. Linked to this Eastern wing there was an 11.5—15 meter wide moat. Here is a place where a board fence stood in the Turkish Period, furthermore to the Southeast a way bridge was laid on beams. Another wall begins at the Eastern end of this bridge to the Central Castle. As we found at the excavation, the inner fortified castle with towers was probably built in the middle of the 14 th century. By the 15 th century, it had multi-angle towers as well. Later, in the early 16 th century the semi-circle shaped guntowers were built. In the inner-castle, which was significantly disturbed by newer constructions, we found idom-bricks, wooden piles and beams, furthermore planks, and quite a large quantity of pottery, iron pieces, bones of animals, and other remains of plants from the Turkish Age. Among the ancient pottery, there are some precious ones like the incrusted ones from the Bronze Age and the sealed decorated printed pottery from the Árpad Age. We found several pieces of fine, white, fluted pottery, sealed jugs made in the 14—15 th century. Besides the particular Turkish painted pottery, and the simple glass cupshaped chimney-eyes, we found shods for boots, knives, curbs, iron bands, and animal bones of wild birds and domestic poultry, wild pigs, sheep, goats. At the area of the wooden bridge in the Southern part, we found seeds of peach, plum, almond, walnut, hazelnut and melon.
