Bronze Age Objects Found on Tram-Train Route

About 8,000 objects were discovered during the excavations on the route of the would-be tram-train between Hódmezővásárhely and Szeged, the oldest finds are from the Bronze Age.

Experts from the János Tornyai Museum of Hódmezővásárhely carried out small archaeological excavations at eight sites along the route, and their experiences are preserved in tens of thousands of photographs and hundreds of pages of documentation.

The transport investment also provided an opportunity to observe the cross-sectional archaeology of the city and to refine the image of the already known sites. Most of the objects have been found in a previously examined area. The oldest pieces date from the Bronze Age, and the newest archaeological finds date from the New Age, 90% of them were buried in the Turkish era and in the times immediately before and after.

The final works will be carried out by specialists in the vicinity of the Grand Station, where the excavation confirmed that a settlement was there from the end of the Árpádian period until the Anjou era. This is also confirmed by the fragments of pottery and cauldron rims from the Árpádian period that have just been found.

The finds are continuously processed by the staff of the Tornyai Museum, that will organize an exhibition of cleaned and documented objects next year, in which, in addition to the most interesting finds found during the construction of the tram-train, archaeological phenomena documented during observations will be presented.