Kópháza – Széles Földek, or From Prehistory to the Second World War

Abstract

Preventive excavations have been ongoing since May of 2018 at the merged archaeological site under the name Kópháza -Széles földek, and several sections of cemeteries and settlements have been discovered during these.Several thousand features that can be dated from the Copper Age to the modern period have been found over this extensive area.The graves from the Middle Bronze Age, Hallstatt period, Late Iron Age and Early Imperial period have provided interesting details about the history of the region.The Imperial period section of the cemetery can probably be linked to the Germanic Quadi people. 1 The metal detection and humus layer removal were performed by the archaeological technicians Tamás Horváth and Gábor Scherer.Besides them, colleagues performing the excavation were the archaeological technicians