A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 1997-1998 (Debrecen, 1999)

Utak a múltba - Kivonat az M3 autópálya nyomvonalán feltárt régészeti leletek kiállítási katalógusából

had a different function. These pits were always associated with a larger round pit at one end in which traces of intensive firing could be noted, suggesting that they were used for smoking or drying meat. Other features with an economic function included fireplaces and ovens. The bulk of the finds was made up of pottery. Their dating is often difficult since most types were used over a long period of time. Wheel-turned wares tempered with sand and ornamented with bundles of incised wavy lines first appeared from the last third of the 4th century in the Great Hungarian Plain and thus offer a secure chronological anchor. There is little evidence for trade links with Pannónia, a feature which again suggests a date in the later Sarmatian period, in the 3rd-4th century. The abandonment of the Sarmatian settlement is indirectly indicated by the six Germanic graves from the Early Migration period which can be dated to the 5th-6th centuries. This would suggest that the Sarmatian settlement can be dated to the second half of the 3rd century and the 4th century, and that it was abandoned sometime at the turn of the 4th-5th centuries. 192