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Régészet - Péntek Attila–Zandler Krisztián: Nyíltszíni levéleszközös telep Legénd-Rovnyán
OPEN AIR SITE WITH LEAF-POINTS AT LEGÉND-ROVNYA (CSERHÁT MOUNTAINS, NORTH HUNGARY) (TRANSLATED BY ATTILA PÉNTEK) The geographical location of the site The site is situated in the Western Cserhát Mountains, 3 kilometers northwest of the village Legénd, on the northeast shoulder of the Romhányi Mountains, about 500 meters from the 385,4 m high Rovnya Summit. The site is located on a plateau of approximately 250x100 meter size. The relative height from the sole of the Halyagos- streamlet is about 60-70 meters. This section of the streamlet is a quasi “dead end valley”. Among the primary migration corridor of the Szécsénkei-streamlet and Ketbodonyi-streamlet this is a potential secondary route between the valley of the Galga- River and the Romhány-hollow. South of the site one can find some other small “dead end valleys”. The most important of them is the source of the Sápi-streamlet. Here we can find again the phenomena which we observed at various other sites in the Cserhát Mountains-Vanyarc-Szlovácka-dolina1, Legénd-Káldy-tanya1 2, Szécsénke-Kis-Ferenc- hegy3, in the territory of the Ipoly-river: Hont-Csitár4 and at some sites around Eger: Demjén Szőlő-hegy5 - the most Middle Paleolithical or Early Upper Paleolithical sites are situated along “dead end valleys” sometimes with asymmetrical cross section. The raw materials in the archaeological assemblage The most dominant raw material is the local limnic quartzite with 756 pieces (77,78 %). Thanks to the Miocene postvolcanic activity this raw material is very common in the Cserhát Mountains. Other raw materials of unknown provenience like the andesite, northern flint and radiolarite are also present in the assemblage. Two other raw materials, the siliceous pebble and the quartzite, should be regarded as local too. The ratio of the siliceous pebble with 166 pieces is 17,08 % in the total assemblage but it is significantly higher among the tools with 22 pieces, namely 47,83 %. The ratio of the 19 pieces quartzite in the total assemblage is 1,95 %. The only long distance raw materials, the „Szeletian felsitic porphyry” (metarhyolite) and the Carpathian 1 type obsidian are represented by a few pieces (5-5 pieces = 0,51 %). 1 MARKÓ 2007 2 MARKÓ-PÉNTEK 2003-2004 3 PÉNTEK-ZANDLER 2013 4 ZANDLER 2010 5 ZANDLER 2006; 2012b 43
