M. Járó - L. Költő szerk.: Archaeometrical research in Hungary (Budapest, 1988)
Prospecting - KISS János, PATTANTYUS-Á. Miklós, SELMECZI László: Geophysical research at a Jazygian' settlement, Négyszállás
When mterpreting the anomaly maps the values deviating from the average were examined, and the sizes and positions of the higher resistivity zones were found to correspond to the same features of the houses of a village . In one of the areas the boundary of the settlement could be determined by measurement (Fig. 1); the correctness of the boundary is supported by the direction of the one-time water course, which can be traced on the surface. In the figure this boundary is indicated by the isoline in about the N—S direction in the SE part of the map. The maximum zones in the NW side presumably mark the places of the houses. This map was processed by a smoothing filter. 0 10m i i i Fig.l Apparent resistivity map. Dipole-dipole electrode array, AB = MN = 1 m, N= 3 m, reference depth: 1.5 m, layout direction: NW-SE. Data were processed by smoothing filter. The isoline of 15 Sim cutting the area diagonally marks the boundary of the settlement (it coincides with the direction of the one-time water course). The separate maximum zones possibly mark the places of the houses of the Jazygian settlement. Unfortunately, only two anomalies of strikingly high resistivity could so far have been checked by excavation. At one of the places large pieces of stone and a very deep pit were found. Up till now their functions have not been defined. No further archaeological research has been performed at this place. Figure 2 shows the anomaly map of another part of the area, on which the sizes and distances of the maxima also seem to indicate the places of the houses. The most striking anomaly at the NW part of the area was excavated. In the relatively small size (4X4 m) trial trench the remains of a 14th century house with a kiln made of stone took shape at a depth of about 80 cm (Photo 1 ). Of course, it cannot be stated that the areas devoid of anomalies are also devoid of objects. By means of geophysical survey we only intended to facilitate and accelerate the excavation of the area and the determination of its stmcture.
