Gyöngyössy Márton (szerk.): Perspectives on the Past. Major Excavations in County Pest (Szentendre, 2008)

Conquest period burials

at Budaörs

(8th/7th century BC~ late 1st century AD) (1 st~4th centuries AD) (400-454AD) (454-568AD) (568-8 U/829 AD)

CONQUEST PERIOD AND ÁRPÁDIAN AGE

(895-1301 AD)

(1301-1526/1686)

Burials of the Conquest period formed one larger and two smaller clusters in the north-western part of the Roman cemetery lying in an area known as Kamaraerdei-dűlő. Most of the twenty-five burials did not contain any grave goods. They were dug less deep than the Roman graves and were often disturbed by ploughing. The finds from two lavishly furnished burials date the graves to the 10th—11 th century. Grave 158 contained the burials of two men, separated by a narrow ledge: one wore a necklace strung of 10th century silver coins and an S terminalled lockring, the other had a bronze ring by the head and on the chest. The richly bejewelled woman interred near them was laid to rest in a garment adorned with small bronze ball buttons. She wore a ring in her hair or ear, a neckring and beads around her neck, a twisted bracelet and a similar finger-ring.

The settlement of this community has not been identified yet. Two pits of the Roman settlement yielded pottery of the Conquest period. No features of the Árpádian Age were found.

Ten burials of the Árpádian Age containing S terminalled lockrings and gilt bronze buttons were earlier found in the nearby orchard, where the medieval village of Horhi once lay. •

• Katalin Ottományi

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S terminalled lockring and 10th century coins Conquest period vessel from the settlement Jewellery from a female burial Jewellery in Grave 127, a female burial