“Following the Trail of the Nyáry Barons.” Investigation of the Eponymous Site of the Late Bronze Age Piliny Culture and one of the most important sites of Scythians in Hungary

Guba, Szilvia and Tankó, Károly (2020) “Following the Trail of the Nyáry Barons.” Investigation of the Eponymous Site of the Late Bronze Age Piliny Culture and one of the most important sites of Scythians in Hungary. HUNGARIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, 9 (2). pp. 21-28. ISSN 2416-0296

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Abstract

Piliny is a small village with a few hundred inhabitants in the picturesque Görbe Land in County Nógrád. Yet, it is also an important location in the cradle of Hungarian archaeology, where members of the Nyáry family, driven by their interest in, and commitment to, Hungarian archaeological scholarship, conducted memorable investigations on the land they owned. Their untiring collecting activity and their persistence in assessing the finds was a continuation of the work of Ferenc Kubinyi, their predecessor, to whom they were also related by blood. They contributed much to the archaeological investigation of the settlement and to the better understanding of its prehistory, which commanded considerable attention in the international archaeological community. The present study offers an overview of our research project funded by the National Cultural Fund, whose goal was to identify the locations of the excavations conducted by Baron Jenő Nyáry and his brother and son, both called Albert.

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