A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 23. (Békéscsaba, 2002)

Rózsa Zoltán: Avar settlement in Kardoskút

Rózsa Zoltán RÖVIDÍTÉSEK Acta ArchHung = ArchÉrt = BMMK ComArchHung = MFMÉ MNM RVM Varia ArchHung = Acta Archaeologica Acadamiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, Budapest Archaeologiai Értesítő, Budapest A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei, Békéscsaba Communicationes Archaeologicae Hungáriáé, Budapest A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, Szeged Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Budapest Rad Vojvodjanskih Muzeja, Növi Sad Varia Archaeologica Hungarica, Budapest Avar settlement in Kardoskút - Zoltán Rózsa Résumé Ernő Olasz jr. carried out excavations during the archéologie excavations related to the building works of the local sports ground in Kardoskút in 1952-53, and during his excavations he has disclosed also an Avar Age settlement part, but he was unaware of this. During the excavation very scattered Neolithic and Scythian Age ceramic fragments and more Sarmatian Age objects were disclosed. According to the practice of that times just the most important pieces were registered in the inventory of the regionally competent Museum in Orosháza. Furthermore during taking the inventory the material of find of the Avar village was qualified as Sarmatian, because on the place of occurence also late Sarmatian settlement part was disclosed, that was being very similar in several aspects to the late Avar ceramics. According to this it was omitted from the Orosháza monograph in 1965, since by that time Ernő Olasz - because of his discrediting - was excluded from the Hungarian Archeology. Today it is interesting just from science historical aspect, since the first Avar Age settlement disclosure in Hungary was not in Kardoskút. One of the two house types - found at the settlement disclosure - that's shorter aisle walls were east-west orientated, is probably an object from the Avar Age (picture No. 3. 3-4). In the corners of both houses, and also in the intersections of their eastwest axis stake holes were found. Avar Age ceramics were found in the pits relatively far to the houses, that pits could not be related with certainty to this age. Remarkable that these pits were concentrated around the two ditches disclosed in the settlement. The age of these rather irregularly running ditches could be determined very uncertainly. The few - probably Avar Age - ceramic fragments (51 pes) found at the settlement, were classified typologically with regard to the manufacturing technics, 132