Varkocsfésű és szalu a Balatonudvari-Fövenyes temetőből

Abstract

A total of 616 burials were uncovered in 583 graves of the cemetery investigated in 2002, 2009–2010 and 2013. The burial ground is unusual in that the small, narrow valley lying north of road 71 on the outskirts of Balatonudvari was used during several periods. The site’s upper layer contained west to east oriented burials from the tenth–eleventh centuries, underneath which lay north to south oriented burials from the middle and late avar period. Some grave pits of the avar period had been repeatedly re-used and we documented several superimposed burials. The two unusual, rare finds presented and discussed here came to light in the cemetery’s northern part: a braid comb from grave 309 and a woodworking adze from grave 516, both part of the eastern heritage of the avar population.