Gyöngyössy Márton (szerk.): Perspectives on the Past. Major Excavations in County Pest (Szentendre, 2008)
A Celtic cemetery at Solymár (lst-4th centuries AD) (8th/7th century BC- late 1 st century AD) (895-1301 AD) (1301-1526/1686) About 3 per cent of the archaeological features uncovered on the site of the Auchan supermarket in 2005 can be dated to the early Celtic Age. Nine of the excavated features were inhumation burials, most of which were disturbed, but even so, they yielded a rich assortment of finds, ranging from fluted silver beads and bronze and iron brooches to iron knives, socketed spearheads and a variety of vessels (urns, bowls and cups). Feature 163 contained an undisturbed inhumation burial with lavish grave goods. The deceased was laid to rest extended on the back. Placed in the grave were seven vessels, a bronze neckring and several bracelets, beside which lay bronze and iron scraps, the corroded remains of various costume ornaments. Feature 135, a looted grave, yielded eighty-eight blue and five yellow glass paste beads, thirtyfour coral beads, two silver beads and a silver gilt gold bead, a Dux type brooch and a bronze pendant. The perhaps most remarkable find from the cemetery came to light in Feature 173: a flat gravestone measuring roughly 70 cm by 130 cm, decorated with a lightly incised lattice pattern on the back and a red painted figurái design with two human figures and a building framed with carved lines in front. m . • 1. Bay leaf shaped iron spearhead 2. Grave 163, after excavation 3. Iron artefacts from Grave 159 4. Bead necklace 5. Bronze pendant 6. Bracelets from a Celtic grave 7. Gravestone with painted and incised decoration • Éva Maróti and Anita Kecskés 2.
