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Remembrance in Time
Katalin B. Nagy, just as the majority of archaeologists of the countryside, faced with
several archaeological periods, and with her excavations she increased the number of the
funds from not the Prehistoric, but rather the later periods. Her most significant
excavation was executed between 1965 and 1985, at the site of Székkutas-kápolna dőlı,
where there was a cemetery of 555 graves uncovered, mostly from the Avarian Period.
This is the only fully uncovered cemetery in the South-Great Plain from the Late Avarian
Period (B. NAGY 2003). 14
Regarding to the Neolithic Age the most important excavations were made by Ferenc
Horváth – an archaeologist from Szeged – in the surrounding area of Hódmezıvásárhely.
In Gorzsa-Cukormajor he excavated a late Neolithic tell-like settlement from the Tisza
Culture between 1978 and 1996. Furthermore, Ferenc Horváth executed an authentication
excavation in Hódmezıvásárhely-Kökénydomb, and he has also uncovered a part of a
settlement on the Tére-part from the Culture of Linear Pottery of the Great-Plain.
Naturally there were many other excavations, mainly small rescue-excavations.
Perhaps, the best known one of them was the golden treasure from Hódmezıvásárhely-
Szikáncs, which was found in 1963. 15 At first, all of the 1439 golden coins from the 5 th
century were taken to the Hungarian National Museum. Later the Tornyai János Museum
got five Theodosius coins back.
We have to emphasize also the researches, made on the site of Misán-farm in
Hódmezıvásárhely-Nagysziget. In 1957-58 Gyula Gazdapusztai found there burials from
the 10-11th centuries. Katalin B. Nagy and László Révész continued the excavation of the
cemetery between 1982 and 1985 (RÉVÉSZ 1996, p. 308-311). 16
From the aspect of a better discovery of the history of Hódmezıvásárhely the
excavations done in the city centre were of high importance: lead by Katalin B. Nagy and
Éva Pávai there were excavations near the Old Church of Vásárhely in 1989/90 17 .
Another site has been uncovered in Hódmezıvásárhely-Bocskai Str. by Katalin B.
Nagy. 18 They discovered funds from the 17-18 th century at both sites, and parts of
settlements, with a number of pottery-pieces.
Thanks to the excavations of the recent years the Archaeological Collection of the
Tornyai János Museum continuously increased, and nowadays there are more than
150.000 artefacts stored compared to the 48.736 pcs in 1989.
14
TJM RégAd.: 178-194-2003).
15
The detailed processing was made by Katalin Bíróné Sey (BÍRÓNÉ SEY 1976).
16
TJM RégAd.: 150-158-2001.
17
The documentation of the excavation: TJM RégAd.: 145-2001; 148-2001. Orsolya Lajkó: The
analysis of the funds from the site of Hódmezıvásárhely-Old Church. Thesis. Szeged 2000. TJM
RégAd.: 136-2001.
18
TJM RégAd.: 143-2001.