Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)

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WHATTHE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDINGS TELL US

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Bronze belt

(PMMI-TIM 71.2.42)

accessories both for men and women.

Clay vessels were placed into both men and women's graves, the finest one being an ornamental jug with a stamped handle. Apart from the graves of the men buried with their whole weaponry and women buried with lots of jewellery, the cemetery also included some poor graves with only a small number of articles, which indicates social stratification.

The finest objects of the community whose burial site was in today's pebble quarry in the second half of the 2nd century BC are displayed at the local history exhibition at the Tragor Ignác Museum.

Masked pearls (PMMI-TIM 71.2.144,145)

Masked pearl

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Jug

(PMMI-TIM 73.1.23)

"BARBARIC" PEOPLE IN THE DANUBE BEND (1 st-5th centuries AD)

The expansion of the Roman Empire put an end to the rule of the Celtic tribes in the Carpathian Basin. In the 1st century AD Transdanubia became part of the empire under the name of Pannonia. The eastern frontier of the province was the Danube, on the right side of which a defence system called Limes was gradually built up consisting of military camps and smaller watchtowers between them. It defended the inhabitants of the province against the attacks of "barbaric" peoples (i.e. peoples not considered to be the subjects of the Roman Empire) coming from the east. These measures were really necessary because of the arrival of the Iranian-speaking Sarmatic tribes (Jazigs, Roxolans, Alans) in several waves to the Great Hungarian Plain from the 1st century AD on. However, the Sarmatians, having conquered the area between the Danube and the River Tisza and beyond, could not

The line of the Csörsz Trench in the Barbaricum