Archeological findings of thousands of years of age revealed at the construction sites of the Metropolitan

At the majority of sites of the 4th line of the Budapest Metropolitan construction is preceded by archeological excavations. The archeologists have found a number of valuable items during the excavation. Perhaps the most interesting of the findings are the remnants of the iron furnace found in the area of the Zsigmond Móricz Circus station.

Hundreds of items including fragments of ceramics, animal bones, utensils made of stone, bone and iron were unearthed during the excavations at the Etele Square, Zsigmond Móricz Circus and Bocskai Road sites. The findings provide an insight into the life in several historical ages.
There was no need for archeological excavations at the sites of the Tétényi road and Gellért Square sites.
The majority of findings unearthed at the Zsigmond Móricz site can be dated to the late Copper Age (3600-2800 B.C.) and the end of the Middle Bronze Age (around 1500 B.C.). The most important finding is the iron furnace from the Roman times, more correctly from the 1st or 2nd century A.C. Another fact adding to the significance of this finding is that only two pieces of furnaces have been found so far in the territory of Budapest, and the only similar iron furnace including the pit hole in the territory of Pannonia Province was found in Sopron alone.
The archeologists excavated a cemetery of unknown age at the Bocskai Road site. Five graves of “stretched skeleton rite” have been excavated in the cemetery. Since the beginning of the 20th century archeological excavations have taken place at a number of sites in this area, and they clearly indicate that this part of Lágymányos was densely populated even in the Bronze Age. Most of the objects found at the Bocskai Road site are dated to the end of the middle bronze age (2000- 1500 B.C.).
At the Etele Square site traces of a settlement from the New Stone Age (6th to 5th millennium B.C.) and a Paleolithic quarry were found during the construction of the starting pit of the tunnel boring machine and the car depot, where hornstone used for making knapped stone utensils was mined.
The experts will restore and document the archeological findings. In the future an exhibition of archeological findings will be opened for the visitors at the Information Centre of the 4th line of the Budapest Metropolitan at the Etele Square.