Arrabona - Múzeumi közlemények 36/1-2. - Ajánlva a hetven éves Dr. Domonkos Ottónak (Győr, 1998)

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tive to study the size and furnishing of bourgeois houses in Sopron. Furnishings of flats with usually 3-5 rooms changed a great deal in the 17th and 18th century. Citizens of the 1 700's used simple and practical furnitures usually made of painted soft-wood and hardly represented any values. However, due to the thriving of the local joiner industry, usage of veneered richly ornamented furnitures had risen by the 1 800's. Interior decorations, various personal belongings, ornamental pieces and pictures reflect the enrichment of the bourgeois. The exhibition of restoration of burgher houses is open for visitiors on the 1 st and 2nd floors of Fabricius Ház. TOMKA Péter: The settlement from the 9th century in Sopronkőhida Between 1 966 and 1 972 the excavation of the archeological site of the Carolingian cemetery in Sopronkőhida took place. Although archeologists did not consider the site-phenomena from the Bronze, the Early Iron and the Celtic Age to be important, they paid attention to the 9th century pits throughout the cemetery. A reconstructable dwelling-house was found which was half-way dug in the ground in a north-south direction and had a fireplace made of perpendicularly opening slabs. The house showed the original location of some buttresses that had presumably been holding an upgoing part of the house that had led the smoke away (1966/7). They also found an oval trough-like roaster (?), an oven (1966/8), a kiln (1966/9), and 10 pits (l-VII, IX-X, 1972/3). The fact that the explored ditch area belonged to the settlement could not be proved. Since the foundings only consist of remainings of pottery they gave a detailed decription of these. Following the pottery processes they examined the quality and preparation of the material, the applied technique, the peculiarities of form (e.g.: bottom and rim formation, relation between height and orifice diameters in comparison to other potteries of the cemetery, thickness of walls, neck and base forming), the form of decoration, the baking process and its results (such as changing of colour and appearance of fracture). The datas were summarized in a chart in which the numbers go from the smaller ones to the bigger ones. The organization and different eras in the area of the settlement were observed according to these previous examinations. The earlier foundings are from the area of the fireplace of the house and the latter ones are from the pottery oven. The pits were in use all the time. Finally they came to the conclusion that there might have been a possibility that the living, the agricultural, and the economical areas of the settlement were separated. It was claimed that the settlement was of the same age as the cementery. The objects found were stated to be from the 2nd half of the 9th century. SZENDE Katalin: Honey trade in western Hungary in the late middle ages The article deals with the interaction between local and long-distance trade in honey in late medieval (15-1 6th century) Western Hungary, on the basis of customs ARRABONA KIlH 36/1-2.