THE CELTIC CEMETERY AT MÉNF?CSANAK. THE EXCAVATION BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROAD NO. 83 IN 1993-94.

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Authors: Andrea Vaday and Karoly Tanko
Date: Dec. 2020
From: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae(Vol. 71, Issue 2)
Publisher: Akademiai Kiado
Document Type: Report
Length: 42,008 words
Lexile Measure: 1300L

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One of the important cemetery and settlement of the Celts lies in a plateau on the southern side of the the Öreg Rába river, in the vicinity of Gy?r-Ménf?csanak. The first burials were found in 1967 during a short rescue excavation, however it made Ménf?csanak 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 Ménf?csanak became an important archaeological site in terms of burials in the history of the Celtic "migrations" in the fourth century BC. Keywords: Late Iron Age, La Tène culture, Celtic cemetery, NW Hungary
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