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

A settlement of the Baden culture at Budaörs

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An extensive Late Copper Age settlement was uncovered in 2002-2003 on the northern bank of the Hosszúréti Stream in an area known as Kamaraerdei-dűlő. The Pécel (Baden) settlement extending over the entire hilltop was occupied during the culture’s classical phase. Evidence for Copper Age occupation was found over a roughly 6.5 hectares large area, where some 285 features were excavated. One of the most noteworthy among these was a ritual pit containing a child’s

crouched inhumation burial 2. and sixteen intact vessels placed into each other. The vessels ranged from bipartite bowls and handled bowls decorated on the exterior and interior to dippers with high-drawn handle and small conical cups. •

The houses were built in the settlement’s western part and aligned into several rows. Most were large, sunken buildings with an irregular ground plan, each with an oven in one corner and several work-pits in the middle. Lying between the houses were refuse pits, storage pits and large pits used for clay extraction. The finds from the pits included various artefacts used in daily life, such as scrapers, bone and stone tools and implements, loom weights and a large quantity of pottery fragments. Some pits contained intact animal burials, mostly of cattle.

Copper Age sites had not been previously identified in the Budaörs area. This settlement provides conclusive evidence that the Budaörs Basin was settled during this period too.

• Katalin Ottományi