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Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Éry Kinga, K.: Reconstruction on the tenth Century Population of Sárbogárd on the Basis of Archaeoloogical and Anthropological Data. – A sárbogárdi X. századi közösség rekonstrukciója régészeti és embertani adatok alapján. VIII–IX, 1967–68. p. 93–147. t. XXVI–XLV.

suai. The grave lies on the longitudinal axis of the cemetery almost equidistant between the outermost graves. There is a larger free space around the grave. Behind and to the left the closest graves are those of women and children and there are no nearby graves on the right. The graves of men are somewhat more distant and form a three-quarter circle behind grave 33. This arrangement of graves shows conscious planning. (It probably preserves and resembles the placing of the yurts in the former settlement.) Grave 33 deserves special attention not only on account of its particular location but also because of the dress of the man buried there. The man was 42-46 years of age; he was at a depth of 105 cm and his head was oriented W

—NW (293°). Both arms were placed on the edge of the pelvic arch and both knees were slightly drawn towards the right. The left chest and pelvis were somewhat moved out of their original position by animal disturbance. On the waist of the man was a belt with mounts. On the right front side of the belt hung an ornamental leather sabretache containing a strike-a-light and flint. To the left of the sabretache hung a small iron knife also fastened to the belt. The tibia of a sheep was placed on the left shoulder of the dead. The already mentioned small plant remains were discovered under the right pelvic arch of the body. Now let me make a few remarks about the particular features of the belt. As it can also be seen from the photograph of the excavation two belt fragments lay horizontally under each other on the undisturbed right side of the trunk of the dead. The portion closer to the waist is wider with broader upside-down heart-shaped mounts cut out at the bottom. On the belt section closer to the pelvis, narrower heartshaped mounts turned towards the left were fastened. Both types of mounts were observable on the left disturbed side of the waist, but there the belt had already disintegrated. On the back of the trunk we could observe also in the original position a section of the belt containing both types of mounts. On the lumbar vertebrae in the front was a belt-end and possibly a buckle-detail (?) in a disturbed position. (Plate XXXVIII. 1 ; XXXIX. 3) From the fact that two parallel belt sections were clearly seen on both the front and back of the trunk, I first thought that the man did not wear the usual long belt of the conquering Magyars but two shorter belts instead. I. Dienes called my attention to the fact that this had to be the remains of the usual long type of belt but with one difference : it was not in the standard position, but the hanging section of the belt was twisted around the waist of the dead man.

14 Belts with mounts found in the graves of the conquering Magyars are widely known today from the reconstructions of I. Dienes.

15 Their main features are as follows: 1. Length of approximately 1.5 meters; 2. The belt is fastened around the waist by an inner strap; 3. There are two types of mounts on the belt: near the section by the waist are wider and usually cut-out mounts which also served for hanging objects to the belt, while 14 Reader's opinion. isi. DIENES: Arch. Ért. 86 (1959) 145-158; id.: Arch. Ért. 87 (1960) 177-187; id.: Arch. Ért. 91 (1964) 18-40. Fig. 17. The reconstructed pattern of the leather sabretache those covering the section of the belt which hangs down the left side of the body and ends in a large belt-end are narrower mounts turned sideways. All these are typical of the belt of Sárbogárd too. Since the dead man's waist measured 80 cm in the grave and the belt was wrapped twice around his waist, its length was also approximately 1.5 meters. It can also be proved that the belt was buckled at the waist for the wider section of the belt ornamented with the cut-out mounts directly followed the waistline. Fortunately some leather remains of the clothes of the dead also survived; in my opinion these edged the pants and the mentioned belt section was tightly stuck to this. On the other hand the belt section provided with longitudinal mounts lay higher in the back, lower in the front and encircled the body more loosely. Since it was twisted around the body it is understandable that the belt end rested on the lumbar vertebrae. Both belt sections are of an identical width, 20 mm. (Figure 17). It is known that such a long belt was twisted around the waist twice. A belt found in one of the graves of an ancient Mordvinian cemetery at Kryukovo

—Kuznovo was also in a similar position.

16 The ornamentation of the two types of mount rows from Sárbogárd is a very similar and very simple floral pattern. The mounts are equally very worn. There were approximately 20 of the wider mount type and 24 of the narrower ones on the belt. (They cannot be exactly counted because the grave is exhibited in its original position in the King Stephen Museum of Székesfehérvár and for this reason the dorsal and lumbar vertebrae could not be MI. DIENES: Arch. Ért. 91 (1964) 18—40. 105