Bíró Szilvia - Székely Zoltán: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 49/1. Tanulmányok T. Szőnyi Eszter emlékére (Győr, 2011)
Vályi Katalin: Hőlégfúvó kemence Szer monosotrában
ARRABONA 2011.49/1. TANULMÁNYOK HOT-AIR OVEN IN THE MONASTERY OF SZER In 1980 an oven of peculiar structure was excavated at the western wing of the outbuildings of the monastery of Szer in Csongrád County. The whole oven had been deepened under the contemporary trodden surface along the walls of a vertically walled pit. The rectangular oven of 108x170cm had been built with double sidewalls: the outer rectangular and the inner oval sidewalls had been joined with yellow clay having been used as binding material. The vaulting was supported by the inner oval sidewall. Pebble stones as big as a fist were mixed into the clay binding the bricks of the vaulting that were placed edgeways . The firing surface of the oven was also made of bricks with a tin layer of clay and a 0.5cm thick ash and charcoal layer. The baking surface of the oven was hardly baked while the sidewalls and the vaulting were heavily baked. The opening of the oven had peculiar proportion with its 50cm width and 70cm height. The total height of the oven up to its top was 95cm. The 40cm thick lower layer of the inside filling of the oven was hard, fragmentary filling that seemed to be artificial filling. In this layer fragments of clay cauldrons, animal bones and a cylindrical column fragment were found. On its southern side a partially brick covered passage of 2m was annexed to it. The eastern side of the passage was covered with bricks at a length of 2m with a 12cm gap at the point of 55cm from the opening of the oven. The opposite western sidewall was covered with bricks at a section of half meter long immediately next to the opening with a narrow post hole closing the wall. The owen heated one of the rooms of the nobleman's mason-house consisting three wings of buildings. The building complex was owened by the Bor - Kalán clan during the course of the 2nd half of the 12th century. Katalin Vályi
