Nagylók

Nagylók is a village in the Fejér county of Hungary and its settlement is known as horseshoe burial to its civilians and townspeople. It was first historically recognized as Lok in 1258. Lying on the open loess of the Mezőföld plain, Nagylók spreads over between the small market towns of Sárbogárd and Sárosd. The cadastral lands, drained by minor branches of the Sárvíz canal, are given over almost entirely to mechanised arable farming—winter wheat, maize and sunflower—while a ribbon of smallholdings and service yards flanks the main road.

The settlement appears in 1258 as Lok, a name most scholars trace to the Slavic loky "marshy pool". By 1872 it had acquired its modern form Nagylók ("Great Lok") at the request of Count Pál Zichy, though 18th-century documents still mention Öreglók ("Old Lok"). Archaeology confirms far earlier occupation: rescue digs at Kislók in 1903 uncovered eighty Bronze-Age graves and the embankments of a late-prehistoric hillfort locally called Bolondvár ("Fools' Fort"). Finds of Roman votive vessels, early-Hungarian horse-and-wagon burials and a hoard of Béla IV coins testify to continuous traffic along the mediaeval salt road that once linked the Danube with the Transdanubian salt marts. The village suffered heavy losses in both world wars—records list 68 dead and 73 missing from 1914–18—and the defensive earthworks raised in neighbouring fields during the 1945 Lake Balaton offensive are still visible on aerial photographs.