Savaria - A Vas Megyei Múzeumok értesítője 30. (2006) (Szombathely, 2007)

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Savaria a Vas megyei Múzeumok Értesítője, 30 (2006) there are reasons for excluding this possibility: the materials they yield, and their size. Most contain classic workshop finds, mainly to do with pottery or metalworking. Object 2 certainly had something to do with the former, as a vast grated kiln was used in LTC2. The large quantities of iron drosses in Object 93 and the casting die found in the filling of Object 2 may confirm the presence of the casting and metalworking typical of much of the site. (Also relevant is the widespread reddish discoloration of Object 82; the wattle and daub remnants point also to a possible earlier foundry or iron-smelting furnace.) But generally speaking, there are no signs of fireplaces or burning, which would be essential for living there. Nor are the dimensions suitable for a dwelling, as calculation of the greatest optimum living area gives a value of 2.5—3.0 sq. m per building. Furthermore, many horizontal settlements, including this site, have "pit houses" present alongside traditional beam-foundation or post-structure houses with divisions. Of course there is no ruling out that these buildings were used as temporary accommodation, but it is more appropriate to call them workshops, sties or barns (ILON 2004: 80). From the walls and marks of existing mud-flakes, the author has distinguished two basic types: one with wattle and daub and the other built with planks. The former (Objects 70, 82, 92—3 and 104) follow traditional form (NOVAKI 1961: 250; PUSZTAI 1967: Figures 8, 9 and 4; HORVÁTH 1987: 65). Smaller posts and poles were driven in outside the sunken pit, to which the outer beams of the protruding roof were attached, presumably with ties or wooden plugs. (This post arrangement was also reconstructed at Hochdorf: BADER 1999: 230—31, abb. 12—13.) Between the poles were woven branches 1—4 cm thick, to which clay was stuck. (These presumably burnt when the house was destroyed, leaving the marks of the wall structure. Table 36.) With the plank structure (Object 2), split planks were driven in as tightly as possible and supported by crosspieces, onto which clay was built up by hand. (Fingerprints are seen in several places, left as the clay/chaff mixture was applied.) The props were probably tied crosswise to the supports, as the planks were. Though only one mud flake remains as evidence (Table 37), a thin tie runs along beside the marks of the planks. Such a structure has been noted on sunken houses excavated at Krinec in the Czech Republic (SEDLACKOVA 1990: 37, Abb. 2.b.) 253