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Fehér András: 3D szkennerek alkalmazása a régészetben
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New medieval artifacts on the Castle hill in Esztergom
Source: MTI | 08.18. 2014, 10:31:00

Staff and students of the Archaeological Department of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University found a mass of 14th century fresco fragments of high artistic quality on the excavation of the St. Vitus Chapel, chief archaeologist told the MTI.
Balázs Major said that the same geometric and figurative decoration could be seen on the fragments of the mural paintings like that of the Royal Chapel. According to the archaeologists working with conservators, such findings were not discovered in the country over the last 70-80 years. The full excavation of the area will be later carried out by a meticulous work that allows putting together a portion of the wall paintings.
The archaeologist added that the St. Vitus Chapel was one of the few objects of the Árpád-era unearthed during excavations, where a part of the building remained intact up to six meters above the vault closing. The western part of the church will not be revealed, because the rockier, more fragmented western slope of the Castle hill collapsed in the course of time together with some parts of the walls. The students of the Department are also going to explore the layers of the medieval quarries used as a dung-pit over hundreds of years in collaboration with the Castle Museum of Esztergom, Hungarian National Museum.
Balázs Major said that the area was a veritable treasure trove of the research of everyday life since it was an area not disturbed for a long time, which preserved layered one on other remains of food, broken dishes and the construction debris that had not been taken out of the city during the reconstructions. Previously, for example, stove tiles decorated with griffin, lion motifs were also found here.During the excavation the one-time deposits are scooped off layer after layer, which are riddled through sieves of different size, then the sifted earth is cleaned by water and floated in order not to miss out any tiny remnant from processing. The similar meticulousness was applied when Turkish-era dwellings were explored in the neighbouring area. There is also a number of layers found intact beside the building buttresses and Roman and Celtic artifacts were recovered from the lowest layers. This year’s phase of the excavation of the Turkish-era houses and the St. Vitus Chapel will be completed by a three-dimensional laser scanning of the area with the help of the experts of the research partner Mensor 3D. The exploration of the dung-pit of the Archbishop’s Palace will continue as long as the weather allows. This year, students and researchers of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University’s partner universities can join the excavations, so the Hungarian students can work together with colleagues and students from Britain, Poland, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Iraq. A number of local volunteers has also helped the work and sometimes sixty people were working on the excavations, the head of the excavation added.

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