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Ildikó Egry Preliminary report about a new site of the Transdanubian Linear Pottery Kóny-Barbacsi lakeside (No. 1) The first stretch of the Mosonszentmiklós-Kapuvár medium pressure gas pipeline was laid as for as the Csorna-Gas receiving station in 1997. Field walkings were made in the spring along the projected preliminary track and we notified the contractors of 16 possible sites'. We could conduct excavations at 13 sites in the short time allotted to the purpose

2. Five of them proved to be more significant rescue excavations on larger surfaces. The excavation to be described in the followings is one of them. The track of the gas pipeline also crossed the hill on the eastern side of the Barbacsi lake

3 at Kóny village (Map 1). The fact that the environment of the lakeside was favourable for human settlement was evidenced by the find material of five archaeological periods that we could collect along the track of the pipeline running 500 m from the present water surface. We unearthed the vertical sequence of the settlements of the Neolithic Transdanubian Linear Pottery Culture, the Late Copper Age, the late Bronze Age, the Celts and the early Middle Ages on a larger surface of 200 mxl2 m and in two trenches of 4 mxlOO m. Map 1. - Györ-Sopron-Moson county • Kóny-Barbacsi lake, Gas pipeline Eighty three of the 430 features belonged to the Transdanubian Linear Pottery according to the find material, the composition of the filling and the stratigraphic position. Most probably, some of the many disconnected post holes can also be affiliated to this culture. The intensive settlements of later periods left few features intact on the western side of the excavated area lying closer to the lake, so we could find many sherds with linear ornaments in the humus as well as in the fillings of the pits of other periods. In the test 7