A Debreceni Déri Múzeum Évkönyve 2007 (Debrecen, 2008)

Régészet - Szelekovszky Márta: Egy magányos sír bemutatása. A Sajószöged-Geodéziai torony 2. lelőhelyen előkerült egyetlen avar sírról

2006 Kiegészítés a kora avar kori tegezcsontok időrendjéhez, ComArchHung 2006,163-177 SZABÓI GY. 1968 Az Egri Múzeum avarkori emlékanyaga III, EME 6,1968,29-67.0. SZELEKOVSZKY M. 2005 Ároktő-Csík-gát lelőhelyen előkerült avar temető női sírjai. Szakdolgozat kézirata. Krakkó, Jagelló Egyetem 2005 TOMKA P. 2005 Korai avar sírok Börcs-Nagydombon. ArchÉrt 2005,139-178 TÖRÖK GY. 1995 The Csengele-Feketehalom cemetery. Das Awarische Corpus IV, 1995 Z. ClLINSKÁ 1975 Frauenschmuck aus dem 7-8. Jahrhundert im Karpatenbecken, SlovArch 23:1,1975, Márta Szelekovszky THE DESCRIPTION OF A SINGLE GRAVE THE ONLY AVAR GRAVE FOUND AT THE SAJÓSZÖGED-GEODESIC TOWER 2 SITE The archaeological excavations at the Sajószöged-Geodesic tower 2 site were conducted under the supervision of Gábor András Szörényi in two phases, between 6 Sept. -13 Oct. 2004 and between 30 March - 6 May 2005, first south of Road 35 (site 1), and then north of it (site 2). They excavated part of a medieval multi-period cemetery (119 graves, suggesting an 11th-century cemetery for common people, a medieval graveyard, and a cemetery from the Early Modern Age), some objects from a Late Copper Age settlement and some from a medieval settlement. In the present study I describe an Avar grave which appeared during the excavation of the medieval graveyard as a greyish brown spot and was marked S

131. The grave in Sajószöged is undisturbed; only an animal-made burrow left of the skeleton disturbed the bow-bones. It can be classified as a single grave, as no other graves from the Avar period were found at that site. Single graves are usually linked with livestock herding, and it was usually men that were buried in such a way. It is a shaft grave, with the nearly rectangular pit narrowing a little at the feet's side. It is positioned in the north-western - south-eastern direction, with the skeleton rotated a few degrees northern in an extended supine position on the back, 20 cams above the lowest point of the grave. This position, along with the position of the food deposited with the body, suggest some kind of a coffin, although no discoloration indicating a coffin was detected during the excavation. The most noteworthy grave goods are the two buckles and the two types of belt mountings (with rosette and zigzag ornamentation), which suggests that two belts were worn: one was part of the outfit, and the other must have been a weapon belt. The objects used by the male warrior may also help to date the grave: the three-bladed arrowhead (became widespread from the mid-7th century), the remains of the bone covering of the bow (with wider bone sheets) and a fragment of a quiver mounting made from three carved and painted bone sheets (of which the painted bone sheet on the quiver mouth decorated with the "running dog "-pattern can be classified into type C of group II spanning the Middle and Late Avar periods as defined by Attila Kiss. Similar ornamentation has appeared in finds dating from after the middle of the 7th century. In his seriation analysis Peter Straub includes this motif in the quiver motifs of the second half of the Middle Avar Age.) On the basis of the assemblage, the grave described can be dated to the second half orthe third third of the 7th century. No similar association has been found in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County so far, so the grave counts unique. However, at the same time it fits into the range of single graves from other areas of the country, which has made its analysis easier.