F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1992/2. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1992)

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and his men in Pécs can be completed by the sanctuary vault of the All Saints Church. Though rebuilt in its present form, the mouldings, identical with those in the Dominican Church, testify to the same origin. Many buildings were constructed or reconstructed about 1500 in Pécs: the sanctuary of the Franciscan Church was enlarged in these times, just as the St. Benedict Parish Church, or the grand reconstruction of the Church of St. Bartholomew. None of these show any connection with the workshop of Master Demetrius. The phenomenon is much rather an indication of that late-Gothic architectural revival at the turn of the century, in which many different stylistic trends were apparent. To mention but a few of the major constructions in southern Hungary and Slavonia, examples of an ever growing circle of monuments, we would like to refer to Szászvár, Siklós, Nagyharsány, Szekszárd, Somogyvár, Marcali, Rácsa (Nova Raca), Atyina (Vocin) and Újlak (Ilók). Zoltán SIMON: A Yet Unknown Fortification on Füzér-Őrhegy At a 1000 air-meter distance from the ruins of Füzér castle on a 634 m hill top the'ere stands a fortification constructed of moat and earthwork. On the site there was found some modern, and a considerable amount of medieval ceramics. The latter can be classed in two distinct groups: a bigger number dates from the rum of the 13th and 14th, a lesser from the beginning of the 15th century. There was no evidence of buildings of any sort on the hill top, and the earthwork itself is the simplest possible in its kind, built of stones gained from the moat and put togeather without the use of fixative. It is difficult to decide wether the fortification was built in the Middle Ages, or even if the earthwork and moat were used as a fortification in those times, although there is evidence for its parallel use to that of Füzér Castle. Historical data as well as the position of the fortification exclude the possibility of its having been used against, or even independently from the Castle opposite. It is more likely that is was a watch point or outpost, a suggestion supported by the fact that from it there opens an excellent view over parts invisible from the castle itself. If the suggestion of its use in the Middle Ages as a fortification is accepted, the question, whether other simple fortifications existing in a great number all over the country, but unmentioned in contemporary written documents were not likewise only fortified watch-points, seems to be justified. Gergely BUZÁS: The Excavation of the Southern Palace Building in Visegrád Castle Excavations on the site were started by Miklós Héjj in 1950—1951. The work then was, however, unfortunately abruptly cut short, and no preservation of the finds followed, either. The disclosed ruins rapidly deteriorated and became unsafe. This initiated the new excavations and subsequent restoration of the southern palace block in 1987. Of the first building period, dated to Angevins times two stone buildings were identified, built high up in the hill side, with a hypocaustum in one of them. A two storey edifice was found lower down, at the bottom of the slope, and a bigger, terraced one, higher up. This latter had a stone cellar and wooden elevation, as was evident from the imprints of beams, surviving on the stone abutment in the back of the buüding. The double chimney of a workshop was excavated on the second level, by all probability some sort of a metal work, since a melting pot was also found in the demolishing layer of the building. It is presumed that the building is identical with the Royal Chamber, mentioned in 1357. On one of the terraces of the hillside there has survived the corner of a wooden building with the foundations of a tiled stove. The building was restored once, the stove twice before both were demolished at the end of the 14th century under King Sigismund. The bricks of both the first and the second stove were measured and compered to the size of other brick remains of the Angevins period. The result was the following relative chronology: the first building period is probably to be dated to the late 1320s, to the reign of Charles Robert of Angevins. The stone buüding with the hypocaustum would have been built then and the first wooden building with the stove in it. The big workshop building dates from the same time as the last restoration of the stove; this would have happened about 1350, even if the fact, that in front of its entrance a Charles Robert denar was found in the habitation layer seems to contradict this suggestion. The architectural complex must have belonged to the Angevins royal curia of Visegrád, since a