Folia archeologica 43.

MATERIAL OF THE KISKEVÊLY CAVE 11 1942. Sándor Sashegyi is commissioned by the National Archeological Institute (?), personally by Jenő Hillebrand, to continue excavations in the cave. He considers the Kiskevêly cave as to be the gate of a larger cave system supposing it extends as far as Csillaghegy. During his survey Sashegyi descends into sink-holes and shafts but after his financial sources had exhausted he finishes his survey in 1943. His further aim is to build an electric power station in the neighbourhood of Budapest which would not cause any harm to the environment and which would function by using up the power of water flowing and forming waterfalls in cave systems.

5 Sándor Sashegyi was originated from the village Pomáz and worked for the County as an office assistant. 1947. The International Society for Quaternary Studies (INQUA) planned to organize its annual meeting in 1948 in Budapest. Emil Scherf (Hungarian Geological Institute) who was in charge of the preparations planned to make check excavations (among others) in two caves. He invited László Vértes to make excavations in the Istállóskő cave and remitted 2500 Ft for Sándor Sashegyi to excavate the sequence of the Kiskevêly cave. Expert supervisors of the INQUA excavation were the geologist Károly Tregele and the retired paleontologist István Gaál. The excavation lasted from the 9th of August till the 10th of September. We have a knowledge of three reports on this work.

6 They are: Sashegyi's report in the Data Base of the Hungarian National Museum under the Inv. No. 38.K.1., another report written by him and addressed to Professor János Banner and Mihály Párducz, Head of the Archeological Department and the third one, a report of Sashegyi which he sent the Geological Institute. This last one is now in Miklós Kretzoi's collection of documents which he was kind to let us have to use up. (Remark: László Vértes attributes this report to Károly Tregele and István Gaál).

7 In her dissertation, Vera Gábori-Csánk does not mention this excavation and accepts Hillebrand's opinion according to which the trial trenches made by Hillebrand had reached the bottom of the cave.

8 The content of the three reports is more or less the same, though new observations regarding the sequence are first of all in the report sentthe Geological Institute while in his reports sent the archeologists Sashegyi is anxious to present the cracked animal bone as tools — probably in the hope of the continuation of the excavations. The 1948 excavation of Sashegyi can be divided into two main phases, namely to that during which he excavated the section of the inner part of the cave between 14 and 20 m and the one during which he excavated its section between 20 and 24 m (Fig. 1.). Numerous highly important observations can be gathered from Sashegyi's somewhat undisciplined and rather voluble reports: - He asked the architect Sándor Kiss to correct the groundplan of the cave — He demostrated that which was claimed by Hillebrand to be the bottom of the cave cover a significant area of the cave was nothing more but a strongly 5 Sashegyi, S. 1946. 6 Sashegyi, S. 1948. 7 Vértes, L. 1958. 127-131. 8 Gábori-Csánk, V. 1986. 75-77. 9 Hillebrand, J. 1935.16.