Régészeti tanulmányok - Zalai Gyűjtemény 6. (Zalaegerszeg, 1976)
Horváth László: Kelta temető leletmentése Miklósfán
Forschungen zu erklären ist. Es kann auch kein Zufall sein, daß sich die frühen Fundorte in einer binie mit der südlichen Grenze Nordtransdanubiens befinden und auch hier nicht weiter nach Süden reichen. Die Kelten besetzten das Gebiet des Komitates völlig zu Beginn der Periode LT/C, ähnlich wie die südliche Hälfte Transdanubiens. Ihre Begräbnisstätten finden wir überwiegend im südlichen Teil des Komitates, doch stehen uns auch Funde vom nördlichen Teil zur Verfügung. Das Fundmaterial ist vollauf identisch mit den Funden, die in den übrigen Teilen Transdanubiens ans Tageslicht befördert wurden, hingegen weichen sie von den Funden der angrenzenden Gebiete Jugoslawiens entschieden ab. Somit kann angenommen werden, daß die Flüsse Mur und Drau gleichzeitig auch als Stammesgrenzen dienten. Im Komitat Zala begann in den letzten Jahren eine planmäßige Forschung der Fundorte aus der Späteisenzeit, im Rahmen dieser legten wir auch die Begräbnisstätte in Magyarszerdahely frei. Neben den Gräberfeldern beginnen wir auch mit der Erschließung von Siedlungen, somit kann sich in einigen Jahren die Geschichte dieses Gebietes in der Späteinsenzeit abzeichnen. LÁSZLÓ HORVÁTH: THE PRESERVATION OF EXCAVATION FINDS IN A CELTIC CEMETARY AT MIKLÓSFA (Resume) Celtic grave-accessories were found (grave no. 1.) in 1968, in the area of the sand-pit west of the village. The reporting of these finds was not followed by any preservation activity, for want of archaeologists. During our inspection tour on the location in autumn 1974, we opened up a grave with scattered ashes (grave no. 2.), and between 22nd and 30th April 1975 we carried out minor excavations of preservation at the provenance. During these excavations we succeeded in opening up and inspecting further 5 graves. Owing to intense disarrangement, the map of the cemetery suggested by the opened-up or inspected graves does no longer reflect the original layout; nor can we draw conclusions as to the system of graves within the cemetery. The vessel fragments found in the disturbed area indicated that several graves may have been annihilated by digging. So we must assume that the graves may have been placed more closely to each other in the cemetery. The finds that came to light date the age of the cemetery unambiguously to the LT/C2 period, while the vessel of grave no. 6 already indicates the early LT/D period. The graves opened up at Miklósfa showed burials of scattered cremation, while the rite of grave no. 1. is uncertain. The early Celtic places of occurrence of today's Zala County, are to be found in the northern part of said County. Every early Celtic place of provenance lies in a geographically important place which, at that time, presumably had a strategic function. This impression agrees with the placement of the provenances in the northern part of Transdanubia. The southern boundary of the area occupied here may have been formed, by and large, by the Lake Balaton —Velence line. We have to assume that the part of the population of the Early Iron Age not yet subjugated has lived in the region south of said line. 23 We have no information of finds in Zala County which should have preceded the Celtic conquest immediately; the probable explanation for that may be the lack of excavation work. It is certainly not by chance that the early southern boundary of North Transdanubia, and that they do not extend farther south here either.
