AQUINCUM

2. kép: A déli sírkert sírjai
Fig. 2: Graves in the southern graveyard
csökkenő energiájú folyóvízből leülepedett
homok jelentkezett. Ebben helyenként
sötétszürke agyagban ülő, köves-téglás
foltok látszódtak, amelyek azonban nem
alkottak összefüggő fe lületet. Az egyik
folt kibontása után megállapítást nyert,
hogy a szóban forgó foltok nem egyebek,
mint a nyugaton emelkedő, természetes
dombról lemosódott, és a Duna partjának
homokos hordalékában összegyűlt
törmelékkupacok. A tégla anyag ezekben
a felületekben vegyes, főleg újkori, kisebb
részben római kori volt. A homokréteg
alatt egy helyen megtaláltuk a Duna egykori
kavicsos medrét. (A geológiai megfi -
gyeléseket és kiértékelést Horváth Zoltán
végezte el.)
A mélyülés során, a szövetkezeti épület
pinceszintje alatt 19.-20. századi kőépület
több falát hoztuk felszínre. Az épület
egyelőre azonosítatlan, mindenkori jelen-
compact with iron precipitation staining
the soil red in certain spots. A very few
fi nds from the early modern period could
be collected from it. Yellow sand deposited
from a slow-moving current appeared
under this layer, developed in stagnant
water in the depressions of the Danube
fl oodplain. Stony-bricky spots appeared
sporadically in dark grey clay but these
never formed coherent surfaces. One of
these spots was cleaned and it was found
that these debris accumulations must have
washed down a natural hill-lock to the
west and accumulated in the sandy deposits
of the Danube bank. The brick material
in these surfaces was mixed, mostly
from modern contexts but some from the
Roman period as well. The ancient pebbly
bed of the Danube appeared under the
sandy layer. (Zoltán Horváth carried out
the geological observations and analysis.)
Lower down, walls from a stone building
from the 19 th –20 th centuries were found
under the cellar level of the building of
the co-operative. This building has not
yet been identifi ed. It signifi cance is underlined
by the fact that it was repeatedly
reinforced with wall constructions characteristic
of this particular period (brick,
concrete, reinforced concrete). The entire
construction, including its later phases,
was based in the thick, olive-brown clay
layer. No layers or features of archaeological
relevance were discovered at the level
of the cellar and as the entire eastern half
of the lot contained the same fi ll and
had the same stratifi cation as the one
described above, the scene of the investigation
was switched from the foot of the
natural hill to the western part of the site,
to the top and slopes of the low hill.
Trench “B” was about 30 m long and 15
m wide. Two culture-bearing layers were
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