Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 29. (2005) (Szombathely, 2006)

Régészet - Ilon Gábor–Juhász Imola–Sümegi Pál–Jakab Gusztáv–Szegvári Gabriella–Sümeginé Törőcsik Tünde: A Marcal-völgy története az őskortól a középkorig egy környezet – régészeti vizsgálat tükrében – Mezőlak–Szélmező tőzegláp geoarcheológiai vizsgálatának eredményei

Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője, 29 (2005) 5. Boba-Butsfai-dűlő: Árpád-kori, középkori Bucsfa falu 4. Izsákfa-Bokodpuszta: középkori Bókod falu (PLAJNER-SZAKSZ 1996; MÉSZÁROSKÖVECSES 1999) 3. Izsákfa-Kastélydomb: Árpád-kori kisvár 2. Karakó: Árpád-kori ispáni (?) vár, középkori kisvár, újkori erőd (GÖMÖRI-HAJMÁSI 1977) 1. Jánosháza-Erdődy-Choron-kastély: Középkori udvarház (M. KOZÁK 1980-87) nyilván a hozzá tartozó településsel. SUMMARY THE HISTORY OF MARCAL-VALLEY FROM PREHISTORY TO THE MIDDLE AGES REFLECTED BY AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL-ENVIRONMENTAL SURVEY Results of the geo-archaeological survey on the Mezőlak-Szélmező peatbog The macrofossil analyses of the drilling in Mezőlak displays the scenery of an abandoned meander accretion from an aqueous state turning into a reedy area. The succession of the area, however, may not be regarded as a typical incidence of the classic way of accretion succession, since it had significantly been effected by both microclimatic and hydrogeological factors. The area may have been characterized with a stream aqueous state at the end of the Diluvium. Paludal process started in the Early Holocene. First, a lacustrin rushy swamp had developed followed by a typical reedy area, in which tussock sedge also had a part. By the gradual warming and drying of the climate the reedy area became homogeneous, thus the torf disintegrated. No soil level can be observed and due to the fact that the thickness of this layer is also significant we may conclude that the humus content of the torf must have been higher actually; therefore, it was not generated by a process of disintegration afterwards. This phenomenon may have been triggered by the continental features of the climate, which also caused the fluctuation of the water level. This zone more or less corresponds with the time period ranging from the appearance of the Quercus pollen to that of the Fagus pollen. By the appearance of the beech pollen, that reflects the increase in the quantity of precipitation as well as improvements in the climate, the concentration of the remains increases. So does the quantity of species. The vegetation in the area undergoes a transformation. The reedy area abounding in species is gradually replaced by bulrush, in which various sedge species had a significant part. In summary, the samples as well as the communities may have been characterized as relatively poor in species. Those species, which made the Pleistocene and Early Holocene layers of other trenches so revealing (such as the Hajósi-hays, the Vörös-swamp, and Nagy-Mohos in Kelemér), were lacking. There are no proper climatic indicative taxons in the samples. 215