Vol. 3 No. 12 (2024)
Field reports

Pilisszentiván-Hárs-erdő 2024: Newly excavated remains of an Early Roman village in the northwestern hinterland of Aquincum

Bence Simon
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Szilvia Joháczi
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Vilmos Lenár
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Ákos Müller
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
László Rupnik
Institute of Archaeological Sciences, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Lőrinc Timár
HUN-REN–ELTE Research Group for Interdisciplinary Archaeology, Budapest, Hungary

Published 2025-01-24

Keywords

  • Early Imperial Roman Period,
  • rural settlement,
  • hinterland of Aquincum,
  • dry-stone wall foundation

How to Cite

Simon, B., Joháczi, S., Lenár, V., Müller, Ákos, Rupnik, L., & Timár, L. (2025). Pilisszentiván-Hárs-erdő 2024: Newly excavated remains of an Early Roman village in the northwestern hinterland of Aquincum. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(12), 467–479. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2024.467

Abstract

As part of a new research project and a local history research project, a team of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences of the Eötvös Loránd University and Archeovertex Ltd excavated a Roman village in the territory of Pilisszentiván. The settlement is located in the northwestern hinterland of the Roman town of Aquincum (today: Óbuda, Hungary) in a scarcely investigated area. The excavation brought to light two Early Roman buildings with stone foundations, a rich pottery record, several metal finds, and a building associated with workshop activities. New data on the topography of the village was also collected. The results suggest that the population of the settlement had already lived a Roman lifestyle around the turn of the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. In light of this year’s excavation, some of the results of last year’s campaign may be reconsidered.