Sárrétudvari-Őrhalom. Tumulus grave from the beginning of the EBA in Eastern Hungary

Abstract

Sárrétudvari-Orhalom is situated in Eastern Hungary (Hajdú-Bihar County), in the Sárrét region (Fig. 1.1). The Orhalom near the border of Sárrétudvari and Szerep next to the Körtvélyes brook was disrupted in 1986 (Fig. 1. 2; Fig. 9. 1). The aim was to fill up the lower lying areas of the village by the soil taken from the tumulus situated near Szerep. In the course of the disruption human bones appeared, thus the secondaryuse of the kurgan was presumable. Owing to the endangerment of the tumulus Ibolya M. Nepper started rescue excavations in July 1986. In 1986 gravesI oriented towards NW-SE dug into the surface of the tumulus from the time of the Hungarian Conquest were excavated. The rescue excavations continued in the summers of 1987, 1988, and 19892, in the course of which the strata conditions of the tumulus were clarified, and the Early Bronze Age graves which were dug into the fill-up of the first tumulus were also unearthed. In the summer of 1998, with the exception of the trigonometrical point in the current middle, the tumulus and the base burial from the Copper Age under the first tumulus were completely unearthed.