A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 41. - 1999 (Nyíregyháza, 1999)
Régészet - Eszter Istvánovits: Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag. A settlement of the 5th century
Eszter Istvánovits divided by a wall, at the second one the grate is supported by a buttress. All of them belong to the so called LaTène-Roman type (HENNING 1977.). The structure of the kiln from Tiszavasvári is principally different and has no analogies by the moment (Fig. 5). Fig. 5 Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag, pottery kiln 5. kép Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag fazekaskemence Human remains at the settlement In two features of the settlement of TiszavasváriVárosföldje, Jegyző-tag (houses 7 and 8) we have found human skeletons (ISTVÁNOVITS 1998/A.62). Both skeletons belonged to young females. One of them (Fig. 6) was placed into the collapsed pottery kiln with her hands pulled onto her breast (grave 28). The other one (Fig. 7) was thrown into a big garbage pit with her head cut (grave 33). Under and above the skeleton lying on its right side we have found potsherds and animal bones. Above the skeleton (20-25 cm) we observed a yellow plastered layer. The earring of the dead from grave 33 suggests an almost similar dating with that of the settlement. Corpses "thrown" into garbage pits of settlements of Roman or Hun Age have been observed in several cases. Recently, the problems of this phenomenon have been observed in a special study by Andrea Vaday (VADAY 1997.). Her data from the sites of Hódmezővásárhely, Tiszafbldvár, Szőreg and Kompolt can be supplemented by the following ones: 1. Besenyőtelek-Tepélypuszta: in 1962 in a round pit of Hun Age a skeleton with two vessels was found (SZABÓ 1963.330). 2. Dunakeszi, Alagi major, feature 138: in a slightly beehive shaped pit a child's skeleton was found with a dog's skeleton thrown on it. Another dog was buried here beside the child. 5 Fig. 6 Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag, pottery kiln and grave 28 6. kép Tiszavasvári-Városfbldje, Jegyző-tag fazekaskemence, illetve a 28. sír 5. Kind oral information by Valéria Kulcsár. Fig. 7 Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag, grave 33. x: place of the skull 7. kép Tiszavasvári-Városföldje, Jegyző-tag 33. sír. x: a koponya helye 176
