Agria 39. (Az Egri Múzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2003)
Domboróczki László: Radiokarbon adatok Heves megye újkőkori régészeti lelőhelyeiről
brook is marked as a marshy territory on the maps, the banks of which are covered in rushes even today. Archaeological investigations started in August 1995, continuing into 1996 and 1997, 9 albeit with lengthy intervals of inactivity. The largest area excavated covered about 8000 square metres in which traces of settlements and cemeteries were found dating from the Neolithic period, the Bronze Age and the period of the great migrations. 10 We were able to examine and in part excavate the Neolithic settlement dating from the classical and late ALP period, whose presence on both banks of the one-time river took the form of rows of pits, two on the eastern bank and one on the western (map 6). The structure of the settlement, as established from the pits, graves and possible houses, resemble the settlement layout at Füzesabony-Gubakút, with the important difference that at Mezőszemere we didn't find as much evidence of wooden-framed dwellings and as many graves as we did at Gubakut. This can partly be attributed to disturbance caused during the course of later settlements and burials. Indeed, we could do little more than record the supposed sites of the dwellings at Mezőszemere as making a reliable reconstruction of the dwellings themselves was impossible. The positions of the houses may be guessed from the positions of the pits, the graves and the postholes. The actual floor levels and the main debris level did not come to light. Although we were unable to calculate the one-time walking surface in the pits we did notice that the denser debris interspersed in the dark blackish humus lay about 20-25cm above the yellow subsoil. The yellow subsoil is 50-70cm below the current ground level. In the area excavated we found three graves, each containing a contracted skeleton close to the level of the yellow subsoil. The specimens selected for the dating process were taken from those pits containing the most finds, on the 1st eastern settlement row (fig. 2, map 7). Füzesabony-Szikszó-Berek This extensive archaeological site was positioned on the north-western borders of Füzesabony, on the slightly sloping western bank of the old bed of the Laskó, right next to the new road 33. In 1997, before the construction of the new road began we conducted a rescue dig there lasting from March to May. Apart from uncovering the remains of the subsequent medieval and Sarmatian settlements one kilometer south of the junction between roads 3 and 33 near the first bridge, we also managed to excavate a row of Neolithic pits containing ALP finds (map 8.). 11 The six large pits, each orientated in a NW-SE direction, formed a row running in a NE-SW direction. The blacky stains of the pits could be made out 20-25cm above the yellow subsoil, although later agricultural disturbances meant that we were unable to ascertain the original walking surface. Although we also failed to find a debris level suggesting the walking surfaces of the houses, there were numerous postholes between the pits. The substantial medieval and Sarmatian remains covering the surface however made it impossible to ascertain the houses date of origin. We were consequently unable to trace 9 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1997c. 69-71., 86-90. 10 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1997b., VADAY Andrea-DOMBORÓCZKI László 2001. 11 DOMBORÓCZKI László 1997c. 71., 92-93. 8
