Marta, Livius et al.: The Late Bronze Age Settlement of Nyíregyháza-Oros „Úr Csere” (Satu Mare, 2010)

X.Elisabeta Berendi: Archaeozoological Description of the Faunal Remnants

this way we can tell that there were certainly more than this one. It appeared in Cxi24, it is a left “mandibular” bone, which is called in fish dentale, with the length of 33 mm. Teeth-like formations are broken, except for 2 of them, de longest one having the height of 7.5 mm.

Pic. 2: Esox lucius (pike) - dentale bone from medial and superior view, Cxl24

Bos primigenius (aurochs)

Many bones were at size limit between Bos taurus and Bos primigenius. For safety, they were all attributed to Bos taurus, but there was one bone fragment which, due to its size, could only be defined as Bos primigenius. It comes from pit Cx239, and although it is a subadultus humerus fragment with strong slashing of the diaphyseal part, and it is broken (so that no sizes can be measured) it still has visibly big dimensions:

Pic. 3: Bos primigenius humerus from pit Cx239 (picture was left with the original background so that the

position in space of the ruler remains visible)

II. Description of some pits

There were some pits with interesting bone-content, and some archaeologically determined ritual pits:

Cx4: Content: scapho-cuboid, phalanx 2, and a metatarsus fragment of Bos taurus, skull fragment of a big stature animal, and tibia fragment possibly of Sus scro-149