A BTM Aquincumi Múzeumának ásatásai és leletmentései 2007-ben (Aquincumi Füzetek 14. Budapest, 2008)

Római kori védmű és török fürdő a pesti belvárosban (Beszédes József -Papp Adrienn - Zádor Judit)

bolygatta a gödörcsoportot, így csupán a szintviszonyok alapján feltételezzük, hogv a házakhoz tartozó tároló gödrök lehettek. Körülöttük cs mellettük a cölöplvukak sűrű sora került elő. A különböző mélységű és irányú cölöpök funkcióját nem ismerjük. Talán a süppedő, agyagos talaj planírozására és megszilárdítására szolgáltak. Ezt bizonyítja, hogv a törökkorban ugyanezen a helyen, de 120 cm-rel magasabb szinten, szintén cölöplyukak sűrű és rendszertelen sora került elő az agyagos talajban. Kutatási területünk a középkori Pest központjában feküdt. A Belvárosi templom északi oldalának beépítetlen, szabad területe volt, amelynek feltártuk többször megújított kőporos útszintjeit. A finom kőporral, apró zúzott kővel lefedett járószintekből 14-16. századi kerámiatöredékek, kevés állatcsont és néhány pat2. kép: A római árok keleti oldala Fig. 2: The eastern side of the Roman ditch dered them on the inside. As the modern construction had disturbed the group of pits, it can only be supposed from the altitudes that these features were storage pits of the houses. A dense row of postholes was discovered around and beside them. The function of these postholes of various depths and directions is not known. They may perhaps have helped the leveling and the consolidation of the boggy clayey soil. This idea seems to be supported by the fact that a dense and unsystematic row of postholes from the Turkish period was found in the clayey soil in the same place only 120 cm higher up in the stratigraphie sequence. The investigated territorv lav in the center of medieval Pest. It marked the empty area north of the Belváros church. Repeatedly renewed stone-powdery road surfaces were unearthed in this area. Shards from the 14

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th centuries, a few animal bones and horseshoe fragments were recovered from the floor surfaces covered with a fine stone powder and small pieces of rubble. The levels were separated by 30-40 cm thick clay layers. The remains of a Turkish steam bath were uncovered on the western side of the territory (Fig. 3) Lajos Nagy had formerlyinterpreted the ruins as Roman remains and linked them with the Late Roman fortress. (NAGY 1946, 8-10) The bath extended under the northern and western wings of the house as well, The ruins were taken into account in the designs and during the construction of the actual building. Thus, no cellars were built where the ruins had been discovered. Even so, they were fairly badly damaged when thev were re-opened and wide buttresses and other modern walls cut the rooms. Evlia Chelebi mentioned the pres-