Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 4. (Győr; 1962)

K. Kozák–A. Uzsoki: Archaeological and artistic research in the bishop’s castle at Győr

remnants of the stone seats were uncovered. The cabinet served as the resting room for the guard probably. From the upper part of the staircase a small corridor leads to a well filled with earth. Its uncovering was begun. The well is not connected with the thirteenth century dwelling tower, this one was built later. The finds uncovered so far contain a rather fragmentary material, among others the rim fragmiejnts of graffittoed Viennese vessels. One of them shows a cross-shaped stamp in an oval field, and it may be dated to the fifteenth century. Two trenches were dug out in the cellar of the Bishop's Castle, one in the socalled foraground of the cellar and the other in the corridor connecting the wine cellars. The finds consisted of Roman, early and late medieval and recent sherds, one of them is as early as the Bronze Age. The investigation ot the strata resulted in finding a bank in the cellar corridor, in the place before the supposed eastern wall of the dwelling tower. The bank may be dated to the second half of the fifteenth or the first half of the sixteenth century, the time of the rebuilding of the medieval castle. Investigations of the inner walls of the Episcopal Palace led to the discovery of the original wall of the dwelling tower; on the upper floors of the Palace those walls may be traced which have been built on the medieval ones later. Our research bears out the inference that the dwelling tower at Győr has consisted of four storeys. The excavations and the research for art monuments will be continued. K. Kozák — A. Uzsoki 63