Road 76 around Zalaegerszeg crosses four valleys around the River Zala. One of the most important requirements of settling was always water. Of course settlements can be found near the smallest creaks everywhere.

We found the following memories from the following periods: the first important settlement was in the middle Copper Age (Balaton-Lasinja culture, quarry 763. and 764.), while the second was the late Copper Age (Baden culture, 763. and 766. quarry).

Few of the settlements included houses on the Territory of Zala County. We found the traces of six houses with different settings. Three of them were probably living quarters. The newest excavations were the two buildings of the same type: with square base and poles in the middle to hold the roof.

The people otherwise not known around there, the Veteoov-culture, formed the settlement in the late Copper Age. The present excavation of the settlement is extremely important since the memories from the age were completely unknown in the South Transdanubian area. The region south of the Little Balaton did not hold memories from the people that lived there in the early and the late Copper Age.

The traces of settlements found before the roadworks of road 76 were executed around Zalaegerszeg-Ságod-Bekeháza, Zalaegerszeg-Andráshida-Csár can be connected to the culture known as the Veteoov. The fragments of the ceramics called the 'fake wire ornamented' can be associated with the findings in North Slovenia and Croatia. It all means that the bank of the River Zala was an important passage to the people living along the River Danube and Dráva in the Bronze Age.

The excavation of the settlements from the early Árpád Age gives a more detailed description of the life in Zalaegerszeg and her surrounding areas. (quarry 763.)