Community-archaeological excavation of an early Árpádian-Age cemetery at Kisbárkány, Kukely tanya

A volunteer of the Hungarian National Museum (HNM) from Nógrád County, János Nágel, reported on the evening of 17 August 2021 that he had discovered a large amount of human bones in the ploughed field near Kisbárkány. After notifying the government agency and the Dornyay Béla Museum, we first carried out an on-site survey on 19 August, and then used metal detectors to search the archaeological site located on the top and the eastern slope of a prominent, perfectly rounded hill. From the part of the HNM István Vida, while from the Várkapitányság PLC Judit Szigeti and Zoltán Rózsa participated in the research. The latter two replaced archaeologists of the HNM with a specialisation in the Árpádian Age who were unavailable at the time due to excavation and a trip abroad. The management of both organisations supported the collaboration in the hope that learning about each other’s different work methods will prove useful for the archaeologists when the two institutions merge. This article focuses on introducing the system of community archaeology that helped researching the archaeological site