VÉSZTŐ - MÁGORHALOM - A HISTORICAL MEMORIAL PLACE

Abstract

Typically, many of Hungarian monuments and memorial places have been disclosed by archaeological excavations. Excavation of a settlement mound (tell) in East Hungary disclosed prehistoric culture layers and several periods of the monastery of the Csolt clan from the 10th to the 12th centuries. First, ruins of the monastery have been reconstructed, and an exhibition of regional history organized in the former manorial cellar built in 1812. Later on, a so-called archaeological crypt - in-situ archaeological exhibition under a penthouse - arose to present Neolithic, Copper and Bronze Age cultural layers, tombs. To present the living way of the region some centuries ago, objects of two forms of ancestral husbandry - marshland fishing and hunting, and wild animal keeping - fishing and hunting homestead, sheep pen and stable have been reconstructed. All the area is an environmental reservation. Finally, in a separate area of the site, a memorial park with statues of writers, poets, scientists of this region has been established. This is how fifteen years of archaeological, monument reconstructional and building work (1974 to 1989) resulted in a historical memorial place remembering of our predecessors since five millenaries.