Horváth László – H. Bathó Edit – Kaposvári Gyöngyi – Tárnoki Judit – Vadász István szerk.: Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 13. (2003)

Celtic House near Szelevény Village (1986-1987)

part in the whole pottery. In deciding majority there is some talk of various bowls (cups), in a few cases with inner polished decoration having designed-formed as wavy-line pattern. Else type can hardly be identified. The potter's products made similarly on rotating wheel from granulous or graphitic clay are coming to a trifle less than the previous ones; among them pails/pots and dolia/pithoi, i.e. containers of thick wall can be reconstructed. There is precedent for the combed ornamentation too. Potsherds representing the hand-made household sets and being in coarse-rough paste go up to more than a third part of the ceramics on the Late Iron Age settlement of Szelevény. The author can distinguish, as forms, bowl with drawn in rim (a single specimen!), barrel shaped pot (more in number) and conical bowl-cup. By the latter two types, in respect of the decoration, both cut in or finger pressing in applied on the brim and put on knot are coming into sight. The publisher values the Szelevény material as rather abundant, for this reason as characteristic to well-defining the pottery types. Ethnic problem may not arise at all, the inhabitants of the farm had evidently emerged from the folk of the Celts. The archaeological finds suggest that the sunken dwelling, hut had been built sometime in the period La Тепе С, consequently in the 3-2. centuries B.C. Regarding the Tiszazug region, this is the third unearthed, searched through Celtic settlement over and above the sites with more houses of Tiszaföldvár and Tiszaug, rounding out these latters. (translated by the author) 67