New foundings from a crazy place

The area of Óbuda spreads out on the late Aquincum, the Roman city of Pannonia Provincia. Many exhibitions, mini-statettes and replicas in public places reminds us to our Roman heritage. But this part of the city was mostly an industrial area at the age of industialization. Factories, mills and large building like this. One of the factories was a distillery, produced spirits. Somehow (I don't know how could it survive two world wars and a revolution in 1956) it succeeded and I saw the depressing and scary ruins of the late factory. It was a horrible place. And two years before the city management decided to ruin the infamous factory and to build something new. So - -like in a fairy tale – before the new constuction they provided to for a little digging and archaeological research. This happens not too often!

The speciality of this place is the fact, that there wasn't any excavations. The factory was built earlier than the time of the first scientific researches of the city. So it became a curiosity, tha factory covers a large place. I was watching the news every day. And here are some interesting foundings I can share with you!

pieces of pottery, the traditional Roman terra sigillata...with a bunny!

Budapest is a continously inhabitated city, so there were foundings from the Bronze Age, Iron Age and settlements and cemeteries from the Celts, the inhabitants of this area before the Roman conquest. Foundings from the Roman area, and after the Romans left Pannonia Provincia, what we call Árpád-kor (Arpadian Age). Someone called the Carpathian Basin the highway of the tribes. I love this expression, it tells a lot about the history of this area. The Celts are not exactly the same as the Celts in Ireland: they are specially Oriental tribes. Celts, but not the same.