Folia archeologica 53.

András Markó: The Upper Palaeolithic Site at Szob

THF. L'PI'KR PALAKOUTHIC SITE AT S/.OB Fig. 1. The hearth with stone structure of 1940 (Photo of A. J. Horváth in the Archives of the Hungarian National Museum, inv. number: 50. Sz. I.) During the excavations, beside the small hearths of surface type,

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6 Horváth documented a special hearth in the lower layer, laid around by 1 1 andesite blocks. The inner diameter of the feature was 50-60 cm, the outer one of the stone ring 60-80 cm. It contained a large amount of charcoal, rising above the level of stones by 8-10 cm; the stone slabs were partly laid on charcoal grains (Fig. 1). According to the description of Horváth in the vicinity of this structure a double stone-ring, lying by 40-50 cm around another hearth came into light. Before the Word War 11 several piles of fossil molluscs were found; in the sixties M. Gábori excavated three mounds with a diameter of 20-25 cm and height of 14-16 cm, lying in 2-2,5 m distance from one another. After the documentation one of them was laid around by flat andesite pebbles, similar to the above mentioned hearth (Fig. 2.). CHIPPED STONE ARTEFACT S The majority of the artefacts excavated in the 1930s did not got into museum, e.g. from the upper layer of Horváth and Mottl we know only 38 pieces made of limnic quartzite and quartzite. The majority of them are flakes, chips and raw material fragments; only two blades are worth to mention. From the lower layer 129 pieces can be found today in the collection of the HNM, further 1 17 inventoried artefacts have been dismissed, similar to the whole assemblage excavated bv S. Gallus. On the other hand, the artefacts from the concentration С and the lower layer partly has been mixed during the inventorying. That is why we will share them as a unit and only the presence or absence of the different tool types and raw materials will be ascertained, without calculating the ratios. I" Guus 1937, GÁBORI 1969.