Dr. Nemcsics Ákos:
Adalékok a középkori építés technológiához egy Árpád kori körtemplom példáján

Part of our knowledge about the building technology of the Middle Ages is coming from descriptions and miniatures depicting building constructions. These however, without exception, illustrate churches and fortresses built of hewn stones with regular shape. The information therefore, from these sources, is strongly one-sided, because the early buildings, for instance simple rural parish churches are often built of rough, un-hewn stones. Further information can be obtained by using the results of experimental archaeology. This is supplied by the results of the archaeological explorations of walls and foundations. Within the framework of an archaeological project we discover experimentally the wall construction technology of rough stone. The experimental reconstruction of a rotunda, made of rough stones, leads us to the discoveries of further details of building technology in earlier ages.