Istvánovits Eszter (szerk.): A nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum Évkönyve 55. (Nyíregyháza, 2013)
Régészet - Takács Melinda: Megjegyzések a X-XI. századi telepkerámia keltezési lehetőségeiről egy nyírségi település kapcsán
Megjegyzések a X—XI. századi telepkerámia keltezési lehetőségeiről egy nyírségi település kapcsán Remarks on the dating prospects of the 10th—11th century settlement pottery (apropos of a settlement investigated in the region of Nyírség) The study represents the results of my work in the course of which 1 analysed the find material and settlement phenomena of an 8th—11th century settlement having been investigated at an almost 5 hectares large territory. For the examination 1 separated a territorial unit inside the settlement and focused on it. Nyíregyháza Rozsrétszőlő, Szelkó-dűlő, Motorway М3 Site 148/b is situated in the middle-western part of the Nyírség region, about 8 km from Nyíregyháza. There were excavated around 400 Early Árpádian Age features, out of which I processed the find material (mainly pottery) of 62 features. In the course of their analysis I tried to devote a special attention to the examination of the characteristics considered to be chronological factors by the Hungarian researchers. According to my experience, ceramic material does not give sufficient base for the more accurate periodisation of the settlement part inside the 10th-1 1th century. It seems to me that the only solid evidence is the cog-wheel decoration of the pots. Though the dating of this decoration type is diverse in different regions, and even two hundred years long fluctuations can be counted with, in Northeast Hungary it cannot be dated before the 11th century on the basis of the analysis of pots coming from graves. Pottery material examined from the point of view of superpositions also attests to the use of cog-wheel decoration in a later phase of the 10th-11th century settlement part of the site. Based on this, less than the half of the features were filled certainly in the 11th century, and most of them were situated on the NW part of the analysed territory, concentrated in one group. Some special types of vessels (vessels with ribbed neck, cauldron, handmade mug) do not have dating value at the settlement. A more accurate dating (inside the 10th— 11th century time span) is not possible either based on the decoration types considered to be “archaic” (different kinds of bunches of lines and their combinations). The same is the situation with the technological groups separated on the basis of the technological characteristics of the pottery fragments. Melinda Takács University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts Doctoral School of History Medieval Studies Programme Szeged H-6722 Egyetem u. 2. e-mail: mtakacs86@gmail.com 81
