St. Stephen’s Church, Nagyvázsony Excavation - Free University

In the summer of 2022, volunteers assisted with excavations conducted in the vicinity of St. Stephen’s Church in Nagyvázsony; where, during the excavation of a late medieval-early modern cemetery, a ring was found in one of the graves, among the bones, a find richly decorated with beads and a metal-threaded cord in a circular pattern was discovered. Another artifact unearthed along with the clay ball is, according to the assumption at the time, a fold of the back textile section of a skirt, specifically the lower part, "perhaps with a pomegranate motif" embroidered on the hem.

With this information and the question of what it might have originally looked like, it ended up on the restorer’s workbench as a 3D puzzle to be solved. From the presentation, we learn what the first clue was that it was not a skirt but a headdress that had been discovered, who might have worn it, who could have made them, what types have been discovered so far, and, most importantly, what evidence and facts that could have served as the basis for the object’s reconstruction. I am attaching photos taken during the excavation, upon arrival at the workshop, and of the reconstructed state.