Horváth László: A magyarszerdahelyi kelta és római temető - Zalai Gyűjtemény 14. (Zalaegerszeg, 1979)
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among whom there were probably also Aquilean merchants. If we check the map of the cemetery (Picture No. 14, it strikes us, that greatest part of the graves of the Roman period separates itself, forming a block, from the part where the graves of the late Iron Age are concentrated. This makes the impression as if, in the Roman period, thery had so-to-say continued the burials. We may presume, that the latest use of the late Iron Age cemetery was about 120—100. B. C. We have stated, that the use of the Roman period cemetery began about 50 A. C. There are 150 years between the two time limits. The greatest part of the Celtic and Roman cemetery at Magyarszerdahely had previously been destroyed, thus we can't know it with any certainty, whether had been found grave-goods previously which would fill the indicated 150 years? Probably not, because otherwise we would nevertheless have found sporadic grave-goods which could be dated to the LT —D period. Logically one more explanation offers itself: we have indicated erroneously the Celtic grave-goods excavated from the cemetery; yet the finds LT —C reach the Roman occupation. We have to note, that in the neighbourhood we know several settlements which may be dated to the LT—D 2 period. Summing up we have to say, that during the period LT —D, the population of the late Iron Age did not use the cemetery at Magyarszerdahely as a burial place and began to use it again only in the Roman period, jointly with the „Romans".
