Open AccessPreliminary Report on the Middle Neolithic Well from Sajószentpéter (North-Eastern Hungary)
Author(s) -
Ágnes Király,
Krisztián Tóth
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
dissertationes archaeologicae ex instituto archaeologico universitatis de rolando eötvös nominatae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2064-4574
DOI - 10.17204/dissarch.2015.213
Subject(s) - archaeology , excavation , truss , middle east , ancient history , geography , art , history
In November 2012, during a preventive archaeological excavation necessitated by the construction of a new highway bypassing Sajószentpéter (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, North-Eastern Hungary), a Middle Neolithic water well with astonishing wooden lining was uncovered by the archaeologists of Herman Ottó Museum, Miskolc. The 60 cm high remains of the tube-like wooden structure was made from a single oak tree with a total diameter of 90 cm. The trunk had been initially cut into four pieces (panels) that were later bond together with trusses of twisted rods. The wooden structure had amazing tool-marks on the entire surface that could be related to at least 3 different chisels/axes and bear fundamental information regarding the chaine opératoire.