Gulyás Katalin et al. (szerk.): Tisicum - A Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok Megyei Múzeumok Évkönyve 23. (Szolnok, 2014)

Régészet - Cseh János: Régészeti kutatások a Kengyel és Baghymajor közötti magaspart mentén (telepleletek a korai neolitikumtól a Kr. u. XIV–XVI. századig)

TISICUM XXIII. - REGESZET

János Cseh

Archaeological research along the high bank between Kengyel and Baghymajor (findings from the early Neolithic age till the 14th-15th century)

The author attempts to present the results of a 1993 archaeological excavation, which took place on a high bank between Kengyel and Baghymajor, with a length of approximately 1,800 metres in connection with the digging of ditches for gas pipes. Altogether he observed 87 archaeological phenomena (houses, oven, potter’s furnace, ditches, graves, etc. including super-positions), which he recorded in sections (A-F). As far as historic eras are concerned, remnants of seven periods came to light. From prehistoric times, there were half a dozen early and mid-Neolithic objects, and approximately the same number of late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, and two maybe three La Téne (3rd-2nd

century BC) Celtic objects were recorded including graphite ceramics. The Roman Imperial Age, and especially the Hun Age (the last quarter of the 4th century AD - the first half of the 5th century) were represented with approximately 24 archaeological points. An outstanding object of this period is a bronze buckle, and fragments of bowls and a pipe were also unearthed. The early Meroving Age and the settling of Gepidas are represented with about half a dozen objects. From the Árpád Age there were fewer, and from the late Middle Ages the same number. It has to be noted that the author was unable to date approximately one-third of the remnants of settlements. From the point of view of settlement archaeology, it is the houses dag in the earth that are the most significant, of course. The digging touched upon one or two late Iron Age settlements, while from the Roman Imperial Age (e.g. Sarmatians and early Gepidas) at least six or seven. The period between the third quarter of the 5th century BC and the third quarter of the 6th century was represented with five or six foundations of huts - and the period between the 10th and 13th centuries with one or two again. It must be said that after 1993, the objects were documented several times (e.g. Celtic pit houses)

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