Kiss Attila: Avar cemeteries in county Baranya - Cemeteries of the Avar period (567-829) in Hungary 2. (Budapest, 1977)

Introduction

BOLY-JÓZSEF ATTILA UTCA 6 According to the records written by J. Dorabay on June 26, 1940, the collection of the public school at Boly included finds coming from a grave unearthed in the Tokaj utca in a foundation­­trench of the house belonging to Adam Gut. “The assemblage consists of two circular breast-clasps set with glass, two bracelets and a fragmentary spindle-whorl.” Since that time the finds have been lost. In 1969, however, on the basis of an information ob­tained from József Gut (the son of Adám Gut) at Boly, we managed to locate the site; it is the plot of ground belonging to József Attila utca 6 (for­mer Apponyi utca; Figs 7-8). The finds were found when digging the foundations of the house in 1928; three skeletons were unearthed, beside one of them lay a “sword” and in another grave there was also a horse skeleton. The descriptions of the finds permit us to infer that here were some graves of a cemetery of the Late Avar Period. Fig. 7. Bóly. Map of the area (1 : 25 000); 1: József Attila utca, 2: Sziebert puszta

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