Short report on the archaeological research of the Late Iron Age cemetery at Gyöngyös
Short report on the archaeological research of the Late Iron Age cemetery at Gyöngyös

Summary/Abstract: In the foreground of Mátra Mountains – a few kilometres to the west from the recently published Celtic necropolis of Ludas-Varjú-dulo 1 – several graves of a Late Iron Age cemetery were discovered by the cooperation of Istvan Dobó Castle Museum (Eger) and Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) during the winter of 2015–16. At the site of Gyöngyös-Külso-Mérges-patak 1, a biritual cemetery of the La Tène period was unearthed. The necropolis contained both cremation and inhumation graves and also two symbolic graves – a proportion which corresponds to other La Tène cemeteries in North-eastern Hungary. The unearthing of 154 burials from the La Tène period is an unexpected result, and the cemetery of Gyöngyös should be considered among the important Celtic necropolises of Hungary according to the richness and high quality of finds.

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