Bíró Szilvia - Székely Zoltán: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 49/1. Tanulmányok T. Szőnyi Eszter emlékére (Győr, 2011)
Tomka Gábor: Beszámoló az Árpás és Mórichida határában 1998 tavaszán végzett régészeti megfigyelésekről
ARRABONA 2011.49/1. TANULMÁNYOK REPORT ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS AT ÁRPÁS AND MÓRICHIDA IN THE SPRING OF 1998 In 1998 a rescue excavation of some days was carried out along the track of the gas pipeline connecting Árpás and Mórichida. My mother, T. Szőnyi Eszter offered her help in the organisation and documentation of the rescue operation at the site situated about 800m north of the one-time Mursella municipium. The observations revealed the east-western expansion of the medieval Mórichida village and later market town. The settlement layers could be examined stratigraphically by means of a small research probe at an area of 14m2. The earliest layer was marked by the bricks of the St. Jacob Premonstratensian Provostship that had been built in the middle of the 13th century. The subsoil was covered by a settlement layer from the Árpádian Age in a thickness of 20-30cms. Above it several inner trodden surfaces and a fragment of an oven plastered with fragments of clay cauldron were found. These clay cauldron fragments belong to the later type of the clay cauldrons of the Kisalföld Region and were possibly made in the 14th century. From the layers above the oven a ditch filled with wattle and daub was significant of which pottery fragments from the second half of the 15th century or the beginning of the 16th century including a fragment of a stamped bowl were found. West of the research probe pottery fragments of the late Medieval Age came to the surface from the fill of a bigger digging-in that might have been a cellar. While the archaeological occurrences of the Árpádian Age were observed at a width of 400m, this segment of the late Medieval Age village consisted of the predecessor of the today’s Dombiföldi road and the houses as well as their auxiliary building standing along the road in a total width of approximately 120m. From the features observed only in section three ovens layered on top of each other were significant that were used - based on the pottery fragment of their ceramic plasters - in the 14-15* centuries. This rescue excavation provided the first archaeological data to the settlement topography - more precisely, to the hardly known world of the market towns of the southern Kisalföld region in the late Medieval Age. New data were also revealed about the late medieval ceramics of the area of which the most significant was the conspicuously long afterlife of the clay cauldrons after the end of the Árpádian Age. Gábor Tomka
