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.
141: 'E' pit, grinding slab, corner fragment, it was rectangle-shape, roughly worked, on the bottom we can see the rough, pebbly raw material, the grinding surface is absolutely worn, smooth, shining, trough, fine-middle grain. Size: 108x83x54 mm, Raw mat.: gritstonefine conglomerate with siliceous cementation. Inv. No.: 59.162.8. 142: Above the Г 1 floor, hemispherical grinding stone, middle fragment, rough pebbly grain, the grinding surface is worn, smooth, clay pieces in the pores, the tool is roughly worked. Size: 170x150x60 mm, Raw mat.: gritstone-fine conglomerate with siliceous cementation. Inv. No.: 59.156.9. Appreciation: The 25 square metres excavated area gave 4 grinding stones (3 were broken). They were found inside the house, and in a pit. The grinding stones are mainly hemispherical, in one case a plain grinding slab. The stones are pebbly, rough-grain, very worn tools from the long use, made of gritstone - fine conglomerate with siliceous cementation. There was one stone, which showed paint-traces besides the cereal-grinding. Pictures: Plate XVII.: The map of the earthwork, after Nováki 1952, 5. The detail of the earthwork in 2000 Grinding stone, 61.50.3. with paint Grinding stone, 61.57.2. SUMMARY The common peculiarity of the investigated earthworks are the missing of the early Bronze Age's base in Fejér county, quite far away from the Danube, at the centre of the so-called Mezőföld. They were established in the Middle Bronze Age by the Vatya Culture. We suppose that on this territory was the „larder" of the Vatya Culture. This area has got the best ground for agriculture in Hungary. Further features are their geographical situation: they were built on the corners of the long, narrow loess-plateau rising above the plan, used the natural ways for the fortification. These places were rich in water in the prehistoric time, and generally have no local raw material (stone) in the vicinity. Each earthwork is a very enormous, fascinating earth-building, which was built with great work. In most cases they consist of more parts (2 or 3, perhaps 4). The excavations clarified the chronology and the stratigraphy of the earthworks - it was a great achievement in the 60's, but nowadays we should need more and more exact figures about the structure of the settlements, the way of life, the constructions of the ramparts, etc. These questions cannot be answered by little-sized trenches. These few finds which are published just can refer to these questions. Yes, we can say, that cereal-processing, paint-grinding, metal-work, stoneusage existed at the settlements, but this is the only one thing that we could allege surely. We can not estimate their real importance, real value from not exact, not published data and finds. There is the time to continue and re-begin the archaeological researches of these monumental fortified settlements, which means the Troy and Mycene of the Prehistoric time in the territory of Hungary. We need further, advanced, complex investigations, including the total survey-fields, excavations on larger area, and each part of the earthworks, cut of the ramparts, with the help of the archaeometrical sciences. Up to that time it's anybody guess. 17
