Károlyi Mária: A korai rézkor emlékei Vas megyében (Szombathely, 1992)
with bridged spouts and their sherds, the sherds of cooking-pots provided with handles and wide openings and sherds of bowls ornamented by small rounded imprints on their rims. Unearthing the group of finds at Rábahídvég has been a historic event for the local research. The characteristic forms of the few vessels that could be restored and reconstructed spoke of a historic age, of which not a single find had been known before in the area of County Vas. In our opinion this age is a period which is closing the longlasting Lengyel culture and at the same time represents a transition from the Lengyel culture to the Lasinja culture. The amphora of the find collection shows a significant change in its form in comparison with the similar vessels of the Lengyel culture that have curving rims and funnel-shaped necks. A cylindrical neck part sits on the vessel's egg-shaped body, with handles on the bend of the neck. This form appears in the latest period of the Lengyel culture in the neighbouring areas, too - and further in the latest Moravian painted pottery 35 . The well-known similar type vessels of the Early Copper Age Tiszapolgár culture have nearly the same looks 36 . In our area this was the first find collection in which we had met an extremely high, bell-shaped pedestalled vessel, that was doubtless a novelty and it remained so, since the pottery collections of the Lengyel culture unearthed later did not contain vessels with high, real bell-shaped pedestals at any site. Owing to their characteristic forms the cooking-pots of the find collection are very important as well, which date back also to the latest period of the Lengyel culture. The small cooking-pot, that has a funnel-shaped opening, pointed handles and sharp profile, reminds us of perhaps the most characteristic pieces of the Austrian Wolfsbach group belonging to the latest period of the Lengyel culture 37 . On the basis of this very late Lengyel vessel types we have thought that in our area this find collection represents the Lengyel culture's last, 3rd period, in which we have included stray finds and materials deriving from further rescue excavations. In our opinion the small round house dug into the earth and its find material excavated at Jánosháza-Fürdodomb belongs to the last, 3rd period of the Lengyel culture. The two-handled cooking-pots with wide openings and the bowls with carinated shoulders represent a typical late Lengyel style. It is an interesting thing, that not a single fragment of high pedestals has been found in the house, but we also know, that the low pedestals were used till the Lasinja culture in our area. In the same way we place the stray pottery finds of the gravel pit at Újperint in this 3rd phase, among which we have found a few fragments of slightly bell-shaped pedestals and of high pedestals narrowing upwards. Here we met 89
