Folia archeologica 38.

14 VIOLA 'Г

. DOBOSI — ISTVÁN VÖRÖS HEARTH REMAINS (FIGS. 2, 3) During his excavations Kormos observed the following: "Layer A": "during the formation of this sediment the presence of prehistoric man. . .is proven by several cracked and partly burnt animal bones, and a hearth layer with charcoal and ash."

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1 "LayerD

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2" ". . .in the yellow layer there were big rock lumps, that has since been removed; while in the lower part of the darker yellow layer. . .1 found a thin hearth-layer about 40 cm in length."

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7": ". . .in the front part of the northern wall, in the lowermost grey layer, 20 cm above the bottom of the rock-shelter I found a 2 m long and 2 m thick hearth-layer which yielded intact pieces of charcoal"

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3. This appears to have been the hearth that yielded the charcoal studied by Hollendonner and Stieber. Below layer D

7" on the weathered limestone surface: after they had excavated layer D

7, "clearing away the limestone cliff protruding below it as a slope, at a depth of cca. 30 cm below layer D

7 I discovered a hearth. This small — 20 cm long — hearth made by prehistoric man on the bedrock before the rock shelter was filled in, is the earliest trace of human occupation there."

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4 ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL (FIGS. 4-7) The archaeological material which came to light from T. Kormos-s 1914— 15 and Gábori— Jánossy's 1951 excavations, is stored in the Palaeolithic collection of the Hungarian National Museum. The inventory serial of the earlier material is Pb/№, while that of the later material is Pb 51/№. If a more exact stratigraphical position of the material is known, we shall also indicate it. microlithic double point (fléchette), Pb 51/123. D: 23.5x7 mm, raw material: red (Szentgál-type) radiolarite. slightly curved blade-like flake, pointed by fine marginal retouch on both edges of its ventral face; blade point, Pb/636, Upper Diluvium (Kormos monograph Pl. XXII. 3). D: 33x9 mm, raw material: (Carpathian) radiolarite the right edge of the elongated triangular shape blade is backed, in the full length of the edge, its cross-section is triangular, blade point, Pb/642, Lower Diluvium (Kormos's monograph, Pl. XXII. 12). D: 28x8 mm, raw material: white patinated hornstone distal part of a pointed blade, its base is struck crosswise, there is a marginal retouch on its left edge blade point, Pb/644, microgravette D: 26x8 mm, raw material: light grey flint its right edge is backed with a slight curve, on its left edge there is a scanty marginal retouch, its cross-section is asymmetrical trapezoidal 3

1 Kormos 1915, 312. 3

2 Kormos 1915, 318. 3

3 Kormos 1915, 318. 3

4 Kormos 1915, 316.