Balogh Csilla – P. Fischl Klára: Felgyő, Ürmös-tanya. A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Monumenta Archeologica 1. (Szeged, 2010)

The Bronze Age settlement and cemetery at Felgyő

A felgyői bronzkori temető és település 119 SUMMARY The typological traits of the Vatya assemblages from the cemetery and settlement at Felgyő can be assigned to the culture's later period, corresponding to the middle and the close of the Middle Bronze Age. There is very little to indicate that the cemetery was still in use during the Koszider period, i.e. the third phase of the Middle Bronze Age. The vessel forms characterising the earlier Vatya period were not discussed in the typological evaluation exactly because they are lacking from the Felgyő material. The Makó and Nagyrév vessels from the settlement perhaps suggest a settlement (?) of these cultures in the same location. The few Makó finds can be fitted into the pattern of dispersed settlement features known from the culture's other sites and indicate a less intensive occupation. In contrast, the few Nagyrév finds are insufficient for assuming an independent Nagyrév settlement at Felgyő. The layer sequence of the Vatya settlements along the Danube and the analysis of the culture's cemeteries illustrate the unbroken sequence whereby the Vatya culture evolved from the Nagyrév culture. Settlements of the early Vatya period have not been discovered along the Tisza, suggesting that - for reasons as yet unknown to us - there was an occupation hiatus after the abandonment of the Nagyrév settlements. Even accepting that the stray Nagyrév finds from Felgyő perhaps mark an independent settlement of the Nagyrév culture, there is no indication whatsoever of any continuity between the two occupations. The Tisza region was only settled again during the Vatya 3 and the Koszider period. The cemetery and settlement at Felgyő fit into the Vatya settlement network of the middle and late phase of the Middle Bronze Age (BaksHomokbánya: P. FISCHL-KISS-KULCSÁR 1999; CsanytelekPalé: LŐRINCZY TROGMAYER 1995; Csongrád-Vidre-sziget: G. SZÉNÁSZKY 1977). Although lying farther, the finds from the Kelebia cemetery (ZALOTAY 1957) are typologically close to the material from Felgyő. There appears to have been no more than a brief overlap between the Koszider period settlement at Alpár-Várhegy (BÓNA-NOVÁKI 1982) and the settlement and cemetery at Felgyő. P. Fischl Klára Guba Szilvia Miskolci Egyetem Őstörténeti és Régészeti Tanszék Kubinyi Ferenc Múzeum H-3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros H-3170 Szécsény, Ady Endre út 7. E-mail: fklari@gmail.com E-mail: gubaszilvi@gmail.com