In the Roman Age (1^st–4^th century AD), the Great Hungarian Plain was populated by a Barbarian people speaking Iranian language, the Sarmatians. Barbarian is a negative epithet – Greeks and, following them, the Romans used this name for those who were not Hellenes or Romans, that is to say, spoke inexplicable, “stammered”. According to the Antique sources, more or less in the same period (first half of the 1^st century AD) when Romans occupied Transdanubia and organised province Pannonia, on the left bank of the Danube a new eastern people appeared: the Sarmatians. From this time on, through four centuries the history of the Danube region is characterised by the play of warlike and peaceful periods of connections between these two peoples.

Burials of the period come to light by thousands in the Great Hungarian Plain, including also our region. Beads belong to the most frequent finds. This is not surprising taking into consideration that Sarmatian women wore an outstandingly decorative costume. Not only their necklaces and bracelets were made of beads, but they also richly embroidered the sleeves, belt, frequently the hemline of the dress in handbreadth and the trousers or bootlegs.

Archaeologists try to determine the system of embroidery. Cleaning, drawing and evaluation of the richly decorated costume demand, perhaps, the most patience. In the region of the ankles, there are sometimes several hundreds of miniature – 2–4 mm large –, mostly glass beads. To clean them without moving a piece, making drawings, stringing, then restoration – all this is a challenging task…