A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 41. - 1999 (Nyíregyháza, 1999)

Régészet - Eszter Istvánovits: Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag. A settlement of the 5th century

Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag A settlement of the 5th century Istvánovits Eszter In 1982 at the southern part of Tiszavasvári (Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county) - formerly Büdszentmihály -, at a sand pit functioning at territory called Városföldje, Jegyző-tag archaeological material was found.

1 During the survey of the place we assumed that the site was situated at the southern slope of a more or less NE-SW directed sand hill, near the Keleti-főcsatorna (Eastern Channel), at a bank of a well observable former water bed (Fig. 1). Fig. 1 Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag and its surroundings 1. kép Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag és környéke I conducted the rescue excavation between 1983 and 1985.

2 Later the local cooperative farm extended the territory of the pasture to the filling of the sand pit. According to the results of the latest excavation made in 1989 the site has undergone a further demolition.

3 We unearthed burials from the Early l.RégFüz 1.36.1983.29-30. l.RégFüz 1.37.1984.31., RégFüz 1.38.1985.29., RégFüz 1.39.1986.30-31., JAM Archive 87.34-36. Gábor Lőrinczy participated in the rescue excavation as a fellow researcher. 3.RégFüz 1.43.1991.33., JAM Archive 89.12., 92.9. Bronze Age (DANI 1997.), LaTéne Age (ALMÁSSY 1998.) and from the Imperial Age (ISTVÁNOVITS 1990.) and a part of a settlement from the early Migration Period. In the following I would like to present the latter settlement (Fig. 2). Settlement features "Houses " In the course of the excavation we indicated with the term "house" 8 features on the basis of its size and character. We can also suggest that five of them (houses 2-6) could be used as a dwelling building. Though features 1 and 8 are of large size, they did not have either floor or furnace. "House" 7 can be determined as a pottery workshop. We deal with these features later. Among the houses of the Tiszavas vári site features 2, 3,5 and 6 were situated close to each other. Their common characteristic feature is the double heating: a furnace attached to the outer wall of the house and a fire-place inside the house. The buildings were semi-subterranian and could be more or less rectangular. Their ground space was 10.5-13.5 m

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. The shorter wall was about 3 m long, the longer one could have been 3.5—4.5 m. The floor was of stamped clay. Among the houses situated at one spot three had an approximately N-S orientation with a furnace from the northern side. The fourth one was oriented more or less W-E, its furnace was attached to the western side. We have to devote a special attention to house 4 found a little separated from the latter group of A Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve XLI. 1999. 173-254. 173