Folia archeologica 25.
Kovács Tibor: Bronzkori urnatemető Törtelen
TÖRTÉL 47 not authentical excavations (e.g. Cegléd-Öreghegy), 3 2 or it is not to be ascertained to-day any more what grave goods belonged to certain graves (Kelebia). 3 3 The one-handled urns, having funnel-shaped necks (Figs. 2, 1, 4—é) 3i,3e 37 as well as the flaring specimens with small handles on the neck (Fig. 2, 11: Fig. 3, 3J 3 a~ M are to be found in their majority — if not exclusively — in the material of the late phase of the culture. A more concrete chronological basis is given by the pieces analogous to out bowls. The origins of the bowl of Grave 4 (Fig. 2, 7) can be traced in settlements 4 0^ 4 1 while its contemporaneous parallels are yielded by the late and authentic layers of the Koszider settlement at Dunaújváros. 42 The bowl found in Grave 7 (Fig. 3, 1 ) is to be dated about the time of the partial immigration of the Incrusted Pottery people to the Vatya areas. 43 4 4 The barrelshaped pot, decorated with oblique ribs (Fig. 3,6), is characteristic for the middle and late period, 4 5 the mugs with high handles, shown here, occur exclusively in the late period (Figs. 3, 4, 7): 4 6 In spite of the fact that the fragment of the bowl with a rim drawn in horizontally (Fig. 3, 10) and the zig-zag line pattern (Fig. 3, 3) appear already in the earlier period, the part of the cemetery, excavated at Törtei, yielded relics belonging, in their entirety, to a late period of the Vatya culture. To a late period and not the last one, 4 8 for a) the factual parallels for the individual pieces (e.g. for the bowl of Graves 4 and 7, for the mugs with handles, for certain motifs) do not represent the finds of the uppermost layers (i.e. belonging to the Koszider period) of settlements where authentical excavations were executed, but in their bulk hose of the previous one; b) only the fragmentary urn with garland decoration of Grave 10 and the bowl of Grave 4 show an actual formal connection to the pieces found in the uppermost layers of the settlements of this culture (e.g. Dunaújváros, Pákozd, Mende, Százhalombatta). 4 0 This means that the cemetery, or at least the part shown here, was in use during the last decades of the 15th century B.C., reaching the beginning of the Koszider period, i.e. the early 14th century.
