Szabó Sarolta (szerk.): Hagyomány és változás a népi kultúrában.(Jósa András Múzeum Kiadványai 58. Nyíregyháza, 2005)

RÉGÉSZET - Sabján Tibor: Kürtő az Árpád-kori házban

It was incorporated into the wall of the pit house. It was a vent, providing fresh air and drawing out smoke from the inside of the house. It is not dear yet, how these flues were exacthy used. At earlier excavations a large number of such vents were found, but they were treated as open trenches. Placing the archeological section plane a bit higher revealed that what had formerly been regarded as open trenches were in fact closed flues. This discovery changes entirely our ideas about the pit houses. The most important discovery is that these houses were considerably larger than thought earlier, because the pits unearthed were only the deep, central parts of the house, around which there were elevated parts providing bedding and stortage facilities. Ventillation was also provided. Summing up, it is justified to say that these houses were far from the miserable and unbearable dwelling places all archeologists tended to believe before.