Cseri Miklós, Tárnoki Judit szerk.: Népi építészet a Kárpát-medencében a honfoglalástól a 18. századig - A 2001. október 9-10-én Szolnokon megrendezett konferencia anyaga (Szentendre; Szolnok: Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum; Szolnoki Damjanich János, 2001)

BENKŐ Elek: Régészeti megjegyzések a székelyföldi lakóházak középkori történetéhez

landwirtschaftlichen Produktion - solche Handwerkstätigkeiten aus, die Lager- und Werkstatträume bedurften. Die Vorläufer dieser Häuser können aber außer diesen möglicherweise auch die Bauten des Adels in den Dörfern und in den Marktflecken sein. Ein beachtliches Ergebnis der archäologischen Forschung der letzten Jahre in Székelykeresztúr war die Ausgrabung des Fundaments eines steinernen Herrenhauses aus dem 16. Jahrhundert (Kriza Str. 23.) Archaeological remarks to the medieval history of dwelling houses in Seklerland ELEK BENKŐ Our essay is based on the archaeological research of the last years in Seklerland. These researches are limited mainly to the market town of Székelykeresztúr (today: Cristuru Seculersc, Romania, German: Ungarisch-Kreuz) and of its neighbourhood. We don't know today whether our data referring to the Middle Ages are characteristic for the totality of Seklerland, or they provide knowledge only about the western parts of Seklerland. We also don't know - but we shall take it more and more into consideration in our further examinations -, how far the results from the environs of Székelykeresztúr are connected to the counties on the western border of Seklerland (mainly Fehér and Küküllö counties), which are archaeologically hardly researched, and to the Transylvanian Saxon regions. The research of local history in Székelykeresztúr has suspected for a long time that the inner area, divided by one main street, which widens out in the middle to form a market square in spindle-shape, has its roots in the Middle Ages. During the 1990s, we had the opportunity to study the first time whole plots in connection with planned building over. It became evident that remains of houses and cellars built after the 15

th century cover most of the time today's plots, therefore, these plots have a history of several hundred years.