Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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178 Z. Győrfi-Sz. S. Gál ossuary. The enlargement of the nave and the lengthening of the northern facade by 2.60 m may have taken place at that time. We also don’t know the purpose of the wall foundation perpendicular on the nave’s wall and based on the graves’ filling. Its age is also hard to define, it is however certain that its construction is dated later than the before mentioned building. The question whether the nave’s southern facade has the same age and structure as the northern one, remains unanswered. According to historical sources, extensive reconstruction and building took place in the first decades of the 16th century. It is impossible to identify any of the mentioned families’ members as the initiator of these works. It can only be assumed that one of the mentioned owners ordered and supported the construction. The finding consisted of some modern pottery fragments and wrought iron nails. The cemetery Two of the graves had adjacent goods: in the grave M6 probably a bad preserved headdress ornament (Fig. 3), and in the grave Mia common bronze ring was uncovered. The unearthed graves had an east-western orientation, with slight difference being showed only by the graves M8, M9. The position of the hand was documented in four of the graves. In three graves the upper arm was beside the body, and the lower arm slightly bent, with the metacarpus reaching the lower side of the pelvic bone. In one of the graves the right lower arm is slightly bent, while the left one is bent at the elbow, with the metacarpal resting on the pelvis. Three uncovered graves (М2, M4 and M5) can be dated, without hesitation, previous to the first identifiable construction phase, because they were disturbed by the foundation. The disturbed Ml grave can be assigned also to this first period. We have less information regarding grave M6, which orientation corresponds with the graves mentioned earlier, but on the upper parts of the filling we have found small mortar flecks, which may prove an earlier construction phase, but regarding their position they can belong also to a later demolition layer. The graves M7, M8 and M9 can be synchronized with a later period, each of them reviling small mortar and brick fragments. The most recent grave is M10. During the morfo-taxonomical analysis could be followed different methods for Infans skeletons, Juvenis and Adultus-Senilis skeletons, too. For children could be applied dental analysis (eruption phases of teeth),16 the dimensions of long bones, etc.17 In Juvenis cases could be applied dental analysis, the ossification phase (synostosis) of the epiphysis ends and the dimensions of long bones.18 For Adult skeleton the analyses of ecto- and endocranian suture 16 Miles 1963, 191-209. 17 Stloukál-Hanáková 1978, 53-69; Ubelaker 1989, 37. Nemeskéri et al. 1960,105-115. Fig. 3. Headdress ornament from Grave M6. 18
