Közlemények Zala megye közgyűjteményeinek kutatásaiból - Zalai Gyűjtemény 18. (Zalaegerszeg, 1983)

Horváth László: Előzetes jelentés a Nagykanizsa—Inkey sírkápolna melletti lelőhely feltárásáról

III. Összefoglalás A fentiekben nagyon röviden ismertetett ásatási eredmények a további feltárásokat indokolják. Több korszak esetében eddig egyáltalán nem rendelkeztünk leletanyaggal és a római kori telep és temető III—IV. századi gazdaságtörténetünkhöz nyújt rendkívül fontos adatokat. A későbronzkori telep anyaga pedig új kutatási szempontokat adott, amennyiben egy új regionális csoport körvonala bontakozott ki. LÁSZLÓ HORVÁTH: PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE EXCAVATION OF A SITE BY THE NAGYKANIZSA—INKEY SEPULCHRAL CHAPEL (Abstract) Between 1979—1981 we earned out excavations in the northern part of Nagykanizsa. In the opened up almost coherent territory of 6000 m- we found settlements of several periods. The digging up revealed cultures of Lengyel, of Pécel (Boleraz group), of Somogy vár—Vinkovci, late Bronze Age, late Iron Age, and periods of the 3rd—4th and 9th centuries. We excavated also 25 graves of the Roman cemetery on the neighbouring hillside. On the site comprising settlements of different periods, we opened altogether 101 pits, 3 Roman stone buildings and one stone edifice. The findings of the culture of Lengyel settlement can be ranged into the younger phase, while the findings of the copper age culture of Pécel belong to the Boleraz group. However, several pieces point towards the Fonyód — Uny group. Up to now any remains of that period have never been found on our territory. The findings of the early Bronze Age are the most western occurrences of the Somogyvár—Vinkovci culture. The settlement of the late Bronze

—Age is one of the sites of a regional group still strongly tied to the tumulus culture, showing many local particularities. In the course of our excavations the late Iron Age was represented only by a ploughed-out dwelling-house which can be dated to the LT

—C period. The Roman settlement was a villa (farmstead). The stone buildings of the landlord and the dug-out houses of his servants were used at the same time. The hitherto excavated graves belonging to this Roman settlement are from the 3rd—4th century. No. 1 of picture 11 shows a very remarkable belt decorated with bronze fittings. On the site of the settlement we have found also manifestations of the 9th century.