Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 30. (2006) (Szombathely, 2007)
Régészet - Ilon Gábor: A velemi Szent Vid környékének településtörténeti rekonstrukciója a régészeti leletek tükrében
Ilon Gábor: A velemi Szent Vid környékének településtörténeti rekonstrukciója a régészeti leletek tükrében VALTER I. (2004): Árpád-kori téglatemplomok Nyugat-Dunántúlon. - МЕТЕМ Könyvek 43. Budapest, 330 pp. VÁMOS G. (2004): Régészeti célú terepbejárások a Gyöngyös és a Szerdahelyi-patak völgyében 2003-2004. - Szakdolgozat, kézirat, Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Pécs. VÉKONY, G. (1982): Veneter-Urnenfeldkultur-Bernsteinstrasse. - Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője, 16: 33-38. VÖRÖS I. (1999): Szombathely-Kámon késő bronzkori település állatcsontleletei. - Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője (Pars Archaeologica) (1998-1999), 24(3): 291-294. ZOFFMANN Zs. K. (1998): A Velem Szent Vid-i Hallstatt-La Tène omladékrétegben talált antropológiai szórványleletek. [Antropologische Streufunde in der hallstattla tènezeitlichen Trümmerschicht von Velem-Szentvid.] - Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője (Pars Archaeologica), 23(3): 79-81. ZOFFMANN, ZS. K. (1999): Anthropological data of the Transdanubian Prehistoric populations in the Neolithic, the Copper, the Bronze and the iron Ages. —Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője (Pars Archaeologica), 24(3): 33-49. THE SETTLEMENT HISTORICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF ST. VID'S SURROUNDINGS IN VELEM REFLECTED BY ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS Having been fascinated by St. Vid of Velem and Savaria, and later owing to the frontier zone enclaved between the hostile superpowers from the 1950s' to the 1980s', the in-depth knowledge of this region was impossible to gain, whilst archaeological research nearly seemed to have forgotten mapping the hinterland of these centers. Although, it cannot be denied that particular archaeological data has been attributed to this microregion, to wit, Creeks Arany, Szedahelyi and Perint as well as the Gyöngyös Valley, direct field reconnaissance north-northwest of SavarialSzombathely in the Gyöngyös Valley was launched by me and my students (having been trained as archaeological technicians at the Department of History of the Berzsenyi Dániel College) in 1998, which we finished in the spring of 2004. The primal target of such reconnaissance was to get an in-depth knowledge of the vicinity surrounding these two centers of power, id est, the south-eastern hill foot landscape of the Kőszeg— Rohonci Hills as well as the transportation route (the Borostyánkő Route) that has certainly existed since Prehistory, to be more precise, the Late Neolithic (KÁROLYI 1992: 81). This area used to host stone, graphite, copper and iron mining (perhaps, the county was named after the latter one 14 ), that is to say, these objects must have always attracted the populations settling around here 14 The author must have thought of the Hungarian word 'vas', which is equal to 'iron in English and the country where this process was completed is called Vas County, i.e. 'Iron' County — note by translator. 142
