Cable laying
Site ID: 31505
Keywords: Roman Age, settlement, civil town
At the Gázgyár (Gas Fasctory) housing estate in District III, along Gázos Street (plot no. 19341/5), we conducted an archaeological observation between October 21–22, 2020, in connection with the earthworks for a 94-meter-long and 50 cm-wide, east-west oriented cable trench. In the trench, which had an average depth of 70 cm, a 20 cm thick modern gravelly-sandy layer was found beneath the upper modern fill, followed by dark brown humus. In most places, the trench base stopped at this humus layer. While no archaeological finds or features were uncovered in the eastern part of the trench, in the western third, at one point over a length of approximately 120 cm, a layer with stones and Roman bricks appeared beneath the dark brown humus. In the excavated soil, a significant quantity of similarly small-sized stone fragments without mortar traces was also found (Fig. 1). The function of this feature is difficult to determine; it was most likely a (perhaps north-south?) street section on the eastern edge of the civil town. Aside from some Roman construction debris (imbrex and tegulae), no other archaeological material was observed.
Following documentation, cable laying was allowed to proceed.
Contributors: Orsolya Láng (archaeologist), Tibor Kovács (surveyor)
Orsolya Láng