Zalai Múzeum 15. Horváth László 60 éves (Zalaegerszeg, 2006)

H. Kelemen Márta: Késő kelta és kora római kori hamvasztásos sírok Esztergomból

240 H. Kelemen Márta bones of a middle-aged person were found. The third (3.) grave was rectangular-shaped and contained a cremated burial together with broken and incomplete vessels. There was one grey smoothed urn with an outflaring rim, a handleless cup with horizontal grooved decoration on its shoulder, a yellow jar with red painted bands on its belly and a handmade, shelltempered pot with an outflaring rim. According to the blue balsamarium in grave 1 and the vessels of the transitional period of late Celtic - early Roman age (handmade and wheel-thrown Celtic urns and provincial Roman forms) the graves can be dated to the end of the 1

st and beginning of 2

nd centuries. Close to the third (3.) grave a headstone was found (Fig. 7.). The headstone belonged to Julio's son Crescens who was a soldier in cohors I Augusta Ituraeorum. He died in age 43 after serving 23 years in the army. The cohors arrived to Solva in 69 and remained there until 89. This archaeological site was already known. In 1846 in the neighbouring ground an inhumation came to light with two glass balsamarium and with a head stone of Fusca, Bargatis liberta from the 1 st century. The cemetery is situated by a road that lead to the castellum. The cemetery was established under Flavius and it remained in use until the beginning of the 2

nd century. IV. Prímás island: The remains of a late Celtic settlement came to light during the excavation of the 11

th century Benedictine convent. In 2001, at a depth of 215 cm, a cremated burial was found with small fragments of calcined human bones and broken incomplete vessels. There were several finds in the grave such as a bowl with an S profile, a small pot, an urn with grooved shoulders, two wheel-made barrelshaped pots with an applied finger-impressed rib on their shoulder and a handle fragment of a kantharos (Fig. 6. 1-7.). Amongst these finds the barrel-shaped vessels only appear in the material culture of LT-D settlements. The grave can be dated to the second half of the 1

st century ВС and belonged to a small late Celtic cemetery. The majority of the cemetery was destroyed when the monastery was built. Roman grave goods were not found in the excavated area. V. Eszperantó street: In 1994 when a gas pipe was laid, a cremated burial was disturbed. In the grave together with calcined bone fragments there was an upper part of a north Italian blue glass pitcher with quadrate body. It is decorated with applied garland motif. A fragment of a Consp. 20. type Samian (terra sigillata) plate and fragments of three Consp. 34. type Samian cups with applied decoration also came to light. One of them has an L-M-V stamp and another probably had the same stamp but it is fragmented. There were also two small handleless cups with grooved decoration on their shoulders. Considering the north Italian blue glass pitcher and the Samian wares from the region of river Po, the grave can be dated to the period of Flavius. From this site no finds were found prior to this excavation. The grave contained only Roman imported finds. For this reason it is considered that it was a burial of a soldier of the first garrison of Solva. Translated by Attila Kreiter