Somogyvári Ágnes et al. (szerk.): Településtörténeti kutatások - Archaelogia Cumanica 3. (Kecskemét, 2014)
Castrum Tétel program (Solt–Tételhegy) eredmények és perspektívák - Somogyvári Ágnes: Bronzkori telepjelenségek és erődítésnyomok Solt–Tételen (Előzetes jelentés)
ARCHAEOLOGIA CUMANICA 3 Ágnes Somogyvári Bronze Age settlement features and defence works at Solt-Tétel Preliminary report The systematic archaeological investigation of the Tételhegy site was begun in 2006; one goal of the excavation was to clarify the Bronze Age occupation patterns. Before the commencement of the investigations, the site was simply described as a general Bronze Age settlement in the National Site Registry. The area was repeatedly surveyed before the excavation was begun. The finds collected during the field surveys indicated a site occupied during the Middle and the Late Bronze Age in addition to occupation during various other periods too. The aerial photos of the site and its area clearly indicated the presence of a more-or-less oval fortified settlement on the northwestern part of Tételhegy. We began our investigations in the area of the one-time hillfort - this area was later renamed Templomdomb [Church Hill] in view of the remains of a Gothic church uncovered here. During the first excavation season, we opened a long trench that would cut through the assumed fortification in two locations and also provide evidence on the hillforts interior. The ditch of the rampart on the southern side was 20 m wide, while its greatest depth was 3.5 m. The ditch was deepened gradually and with a stepped inner face until the bedrock was reached, where a U-profiled ditch was dug. The soil removed during the digging of the ditch - the red clay overlying the bedrock - was piled up on the inner side of the ditch to create a rampart for the protection of the settlement. Traces of a renewal could be noted in the section of the ditch and, also, that two shallower ditches had been dug into the wall of the ditch during the Árpádian Age; the orientation of these ditches corresponded to the direction of the prehistoric ditch (Features 104 and 107). The north-western cut through the ditch indicated that its depth was 2.3 m and its width was 8 m. A U-profiled ditch with stepped inner face was dug on this side too and the earth removed during its construction was similarly piled up on the ditch’s inner side. Only refuse pits have so far been uncovered within the fortified area. The excavated features were all cereal storage pits or refuse pits. The finds indicate that the fortified area was first occupied during the Vatya III period and that occupation extended into the Koszider period. Various settlement features were uncovered in the two trenches opened near the edge of Tételhegy, some 750 m southwest of the hillfort. We did not find any houses in the two excavated trenches, only pits and a ditch whose function remains unclear. The finds recovered from the features are dominated by artefacts of the Koszider period. The few finds of the Urnfield culture representing the Late Bronze Age came to light from the southern cut through the ditch. During the excavation of the ditch, we noted traces of a renewal: the typical pottery fragments of the Urnfield culture came to light from this renewed part. However, we have not yet found any features that can be associated with the Urnfield culture within the fortified area. 70
