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The Celtic Cemetery at Ménfőcsanak. The Excavation Before the Construction of Road No. 83 in 1993-94

Vaday, Andrea and Tankó, Károly (2020) The Celtic Cemetery at Ménfőcsanak. The Excavation Before the Construction of Road No. 83 in 1993-94. ACTA ARCHAEOLOGICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 71 (2). pp. 443-560. ISSN 0001-5210 (print); 1588-2551 (online)

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Abstract

One of the important cemetery and settlement of the Celts lies in a plateau on the southern side of the Öreg Rába river, in the vicinity of Győr-Ménfőcsanak. The first burials were found in 1967 during a short rescue excavation, however it made Ménfőcsanak a key La Tène site in the Carpathian Basin. Excavations investigated on a larger scale in the area of previously known cemetery in 1993–94. The burial rite of the necropolis was mainly inhumation and only two graves were cremated and two biritual graves. Celtic warriors with swords and richly furnished female with fibulae, coral, amber, and glass beads jewelry were also buried in this part of cemetery. Few graves were limited by rectangular enclosing trenches. According to find analyzing this part of the cemetery dates to the LT B period, and that is why Ménfőcsanak became an important archaeological site in terms of burials in the history of the Celtic “migrations” in the fourth century BC.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Late Iron Age, La Tène culture, Celtic cemetery, NW Hungary
Subjects: C Auxiliary Sciences of History / történeti segédtudományok > CC Archaeology / régészet
SWORD Depositor: MTMT SWORD
Depositing User: MTMT SWORD
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2020 19:02
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2023 13:50
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/118028

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