Archaeological research of the Hussite castles in the Sajó Valley
Archaeological research of the Hussite castles in the Sajó Valley

Summary/Abstract: In my dissertation, I examined the fortifications in the Sajó Valley designated as hill forts. The reason for this was not exclusively the fact that they situated really close to each other, but rather the historical traditions connecting to them and their origin. The aboveground morphological appearance of all the researched castles is a hill fort today. Moreover, besides the local naming, o cial records refer to them so. They have a central core surrounded by definitive ramparts and trenches. They can be connected by their common origin: folk memory believes that all of them were constructed by the Czech Hussites. These late medieval mercenaries used them as their strongholds of raids in the middle of the 15th century. My research was initiated by a source critical examination of these romantic historical conceptions based on traditions, and in the course of this I was looking at the fact whether the castles built along the Sajó River are Hussite castles.

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