Bárkányi Ildikó – F. Lajkó Orsolya (szerk.): A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve 2017., Új folyam 4. (Szeged, 2018)
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Tibor Sztankovánszki Settlement structure and Buildings in the Sarmatian site of Makó-Igási járandó Settlement structure and Buildings in the Sarmatian site of Makó-Igási Járandó Tibor Sztankovánszk In 2011, the Archeological Department of the University of Szeged undertook preventive excavations northeast from Makó in the area of highway M43 by the commission of the Móra Ferenc Museum. The fieldworks concerning the two sites of the Igási-Járandó border section (M43-32nd and M43-33rd sites] resulted in the unearthing of a Sarmatian settlement, cemetery, and a portion of a Modern Age settlement. The two sites are only divided by a streamlet. From the objects uncovered, the 32nd site has 9, while the 33rd site has 154 stratigraphic units (141 stratigraphic units belonging to the settlement and 13 stratigraphic units to the cemetery] which can be dated to the Sarmatian period (end of the 2nd- first half of 4th century AD], The Roman import material of the settlement has already been published (Szebenyi 2017]. The present work provides additional supplement for the better understanding of the uncovered Sarmatian sites, especially the settlement structure and the constructions of the buildings. From the 33rd site of M43 the settlement structure, nine differently structured buildings and the findings from three pits were examined in detail. Regularity can be observed in the settlement structure of the excavated area. On the approximately 7500 square meters of the excavated settlement section the object enclosed two regularly shaped object-free sections of space (courtyard]. The houses are located on roughly the same East- West axis and can be divided into three groups. In one of the groups, based on the buildings, the line of houses could be reconstructed. A total of 123 pits were excavated at the 33rd site, which constitutes 83% of all settlement objects. The findings of three pits (8th, 92nd, and 125th object] - primarily wattle-and-daub - proved to be particularly significant from the aspect of building with timber-framed house. Through the uncovered pieces of wattle-and-daub we can observe the construction techniques of the Sarmatians in a manner that may be expressed in detailed metric data as well. Wattle-and-daub preserves the imprint of all surfaces coming in contact with the plastering, giving us valuable information of the wooden structural elements. The fragmentary nature and quantity of findings did not provide enough material for the complete reconstruction of the buildings, but their detailed analysis contributed additional data to a more thorough description of Sarmatian buildings. 112
