Funde und Befunde einer mittelkupferzeitlichen Siedlung im 3. Stadtbezirk von Budapest

Horváth, L. (2010) Funde und Befunde einer mittelkupferzeitlichen Siedlung im 3. Stadtbezirk von Budapest. Acta Archaeologica, 61 (1). pp. 57-106. ISSN 0001-5210

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Abstract

Finds and chronology of a middle Copper Age settlement in Budapest, 3rd district. In the spring of 2002, rescue excavations were conducted in Kiscelli Street, Budapest for about one and a half months preceding the construction of a residential block. Finds and features of the middle Copper Age were found under a thick Roman period layer. The time was not enough to reach the subsoil on the entire territory, so not all the prehistoric features could be uncovered. Twelve pits and a small oven were unearthed from the middle Copper Age. The number of finds was uneven in them. An important result was that we could observe the traces of metallurgy: the fragment of a casting pot and copper drops, which imply local copper production. The analysis of the ceramic material led to the conclusion that this site represents a yet unregistered although, according to former finds, already existing phase of the Hungarian middle Copper Age, which lends a special importance to this site. This study is dedicated to Erzsébet Ruttkay, an eminent researcher of the period, who died last year.

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