Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. A Szent István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 30. 2000 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (2001)

Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Horváth Tünde – Kozák Miklós – Pető-Farkas Anna: The complex investigation of the stone artefacts from Vatya-earthworks of Fejér county. Part. I. p. 7–20. t. I–XII.

bastion-like elevations ramparts were set out. In the Great Earthwork the rampart escort only the line of Bodzavalley, where the valley was too low, and it was necessary to build fortification. Elsewhere the depth of the valley made sure the defence of the Great Earthwork. The Little Earthwork demanded larger fortification. Between the plateau behind it and the Little Earthwork it had no natural obstacles, thus here the earthwork was protected with double rampart. The inner rampart started from the bastion near the gate, and encircled the territory of the Little Earthwork, the exterior started from the inner rampart, and enclosed the earthwork, or rather divided it from the plateau behind it. Near this external rampart we have got the fosse also. Excavations: Pákozd-Vár is an archaeologically protected area. In 1925, 1926 and 1927 A. Marosi and J. Lichtneckert lead excavations here. Unfortunately we don't know the exact size of the excavated area, but it was not too large. The finds got to the King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár. They were found in the 2-3 m thick soil in 2 layers. The upper one was grey and stirred. The lower was the yellow subsoil, in some places features were sank in it. They cut the rampart of the Great Earthwork, and excavated on the territory of it. The area of the Little Earthwork was very poor in finds, and they left it. They found an urn-cemetery, but they dug just some graves, because of an oak-forest which covered the whole territory. On the Great Earthwork they managed to excavate some houses (the evidences are the fireplaces, clay plasters, floors, ovens, pits). On the base of the pottery the settlement experienced the Koszider-period (there was a Rákospalota-type vessel), but the life continued in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age. On the settlement the traces of the metal-work were a tuyer, the bronze objects, and two casting moulds, made of clay. One showed the end of a needle, the other the head of a needle (both are missing now). (Pesty 1864-65, 226., Marosi 1930, 59-73., Nováki 1952, 6-8.,) This settlement was the most important and the largest size among the earthworks of the Vatya Culture. We suppose that it was the principal earthwork in the Vatya Culture

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. List of stone implements: 76: unbroken, middle-sized grinding stone, rough, pebbly stone. The lateral faces are fine worked, the bottom is rough, hemispherical, the grinding surface is ellipse, smooth, shining, transversal wear-lines, mildly trough. S.: 270x145mm, Raw mat.: fine conglomerate with siliceous cementation. Inv. No.: 6286 or 6287. 77: handstone, pebble, half fragment, smoky, burned. Angular form, hexagonal. On one face polished with damages. S.: 65x54x50mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6286 or 6287. 78: a crescent piece from a former angular grinding stone, the grinding surface was rectangle, trough, with damages, it is an endfragment. The inner, convex face is smoky, the damages are missing, 2 This is the opinion of É. F. Petres, J. Antoni and J. Makkay too. because in the secondary use it was the working-edge. S.: 125x70x35 mm, Raw mat.: ? Inv. No.: 6140. 79: pebble, half fragment, the inner face is worn, smooth, polished, handstone. On the opposite face are blow-traces. Angular form. S.: 75x55x57 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6153. 80: handstone, pebble, half fragment, the half inner face is uneven, worn, angular form. S.: 62x63x52 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6154. 81 : handstone, volcanic stone, flat, angular disc, smoky. Both flat faces are worn. S.: 76x70x31 mm, Raw mat.: Metamorphite. Inv. No.: 6152. 82: very small sized grinding stone, or polishing stone. The end is broken. The grinding surface is smooth, mildly trough, the stone is fineworked, the cross section is V-shape. S.: 123x74 mm, Raw mat.: fine conglomerate with siliceous cementation. Inv. No.: 6157. 83: Angular, flat disc, one flat face is damaged, broken, the other is trough. The edges are nicked, maybe it was handstone. S.: 94x85x34 mm, Raw mat.: Serpentinite. Inv. No.: 6151. 84: angular handstone, one face is strongly broken, it was the usingface. S.: 50x50x45 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6156. 85: elongated, rectangular handstone, with convex using faces. Polishing stone. S.: 78x50x35 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6155. 86: angular handstone, quartzite pebble, the one face is strongly broken, three faces are worn, S.: 75x70x80 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6106. 87: angular, broken handstone, limnoquartzite? Five faces polished, both flat disc-faces were used. S.: 80x73x58 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6107. 88: pebble, on the edge it is ditch-like, thick dip, natural or used for sharpening? S.: 78x4420 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6139. 89: broken polishing pebble. S.: 58x18x11 mm, Raw mat.: Radiolarite. Inv. No.: 6142. 90: amulet? Polishing pebble, rough surface, one face is flat, the other is concave, on both faces are hole, but the perforate is not ready. S.: 63xl9ß7mm, Raw mat.: Siliceous limestone. Inv. No.: 6146. 91: polishing pebble, S.: 57x15x12 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6144. 92: polishing pebble, S.: 52x17x8 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6145. 93: polishing pebble, S.: 66x20x6 mm, Raw mat.: Marble? Marl?. Inv. No.: 6143. 94: polishing pebble, with rough surface, S.: 62x36x5 mm, Raw mat.: metasandstone. Inv. No.: 6846. 95: strange, soft, great, angular pebble, S.: 73x30x18 mm, Raw mat.: Quartzite. Inv. No.: 6847. 96: polishing slab, rough, small, with ditch-like, wide trough in the centre. S.: 94x90x18 mm, Raw mat.: micaceous medium-grained sandstone. Inv. No.: 7264. 97: angular, round handstone with one flat, polished face, the opposite face is broken. S. 60x60x42 mm, Raw mat.: quartzite. Inv. No.: 6845. 98: stone piece? Strange, greasy-shine in some places. S.: 75x80x42 mm, Raw mat.: hornstone-firestone. Inv. No.: 6844. 99: symmetrical, flat faces, the ends are flat too, blunt, broken across, on the ends are blow-traces. Retoucher? S.: 160x48x20 mm, Raw mat.: metamorphite. Inv. No.: 6130. 100: soft pebble, S.: 83x55x40 mm, Raw mat.: quartzite. Inv. No.: 6843. 101: angular, round handstone, every face is polished, shining, flat, on the one is deep, smooth channel, the trace is of sharpening. S.: 51x55x50 mm, Raw mat.: granodiorite. Inv. No.: 6842. (Microphoto) 102: polishing pebble, S.: 65x15x18 mm, Raw mat.: metasandstone. Inv. No.: 7261. 103: polishing pebble, S.: 65x22x7 mm, Raw mat.: Marble? Marl?. 104: hatchet with fan-like, widening, curved, sharp chisel-edge. The edge is formed by chipped, rather blunt. The other end is broken, secondarily worked, polished. It is a copy of the shape of metal-tools. S.: 80x64x3 mm, Raw mat.: metasediment. Inv. No.: 7262. 105: trapezoid shape, bulky body, small chisel-axe, the faces are flat, the working edge is blunt with microwear. S.: 56x38x 15 mm, Raw mat.: diabase. Inv. No.: 6860. 14