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

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

Eszter Istvánovits Fig. 2 Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag, the excavated territory 2. kép Tiszavas vári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag, a feltárt terület Several researchers have determined (VÖRÖS 1987/ 88.133, DINNYÉS 1997.369) that at the houses of these settlements - independently from the structure - very frequently there are no furnaces or any other traces referring to heating. However, in the case of Tiszavasvári the use of the double heating device can be undoubtedly determined. We know similar dwelling buildings from the site of Tiszaeszlár (features 3, 5, 7 and especially house 6), which is very close both from territorial and chronological point of view (KOVALOVSZKI 1980.18-22).

4 Beside the similarity of the furnaces, the houses had got the same structure and the same direction buildings. Its size is not clear, but it seems to us that it could have been much more bigger: 24 m

2 (even bigger than the pottery workshop!). Its closeness to the pottery kiln suggests that there could have been some kind of a workshop area west of the houses. However, we succeeded in unearthing only a small part of house 4, so this question cannot be answered. From the sites of the Great Hungarian Plain of the Imperial Age we know a great number of houses. 4. J. Kovalovszki mentions similar houses from Tiszalök. (István Méri

's excavation) situated also very close (KOVALOVSZKI 1980. notes 74 and 77). 174