Redő Ferenc: Katonák Sallában (Zalalövő öröksége 1. Zalalövő, 2003)
The coins are unexpectedly early ones, a bronze coin was even minted in the republican period. Duration of military presence A lthough the analysis of the Samian ware material has not reached the level that it would afford comparative statistical analyses similar to the ones made from coins, they certainly reveal that unusually many Italian Samian wares were found in all the three sites from Tiberius' and Claudius' times. One of the Samian wares found in the site on the bank could even be dated to the Augustan period. The next floor level that covered the layer of the period of the military fort can be dated with Domitians coins, thus we date the time of the withdrawal of the army to the years around 85. Tlie structure of find material Summing up the observations we can tell that, above scattered settlement levels of the antecedents, we have found military type features concentrated in sites F, S and Y/l. They can be divided into two groups partly after their orientation, partly after their stratigraphic position. The early group contains the barrack in site F, the baking oven and the sporadic features around it in site S and the early building in site Y/l. The later group contains the ditch and the timber traces SE of it, the horrea and the later buildings in site Y/l. The intensity of coin circulation and the mass of Samian wares unilaterally imply that suddenly a populous Romanised community occupied these territories in the second decade AD. The bulk of finds that was illustrated above by Samian wares and coins suggests in itself an organised settlement, in which social and economic differences appeared. There was a layer that consumed oyster and used Samian wares from Arretium, and another one that used mass products. To put is simply everything evidences the arrival of a military contingent the officers of which left us the proofs of a more refined taste, while the mass products came from the soldiers. We have not yet carried out the separation of the definitely military finds. We can certainly tell from the analyses carried so far that the neck guard of an iron helmet (Fig. 13) and several spears (Fig. 14) can be attributed to this period. A bronze (Fig. 15) and two iron spurs (Fig. 16) imply a mounted troop, just like the characteristic silver-coated heart-shaped pendant ornaments (Fig. 17), which could belong to a harness.
