Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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188 Z. Soós-Sz. S. Gál The inside of the well could not offer any details regarding the construction data as it was in use and therefore it was regularly cleaned. The well’s construction technique brought the necessary clues for the chronological questions. The walls of the well were built of river stone and lime stone. In order to elevate this 11m deep structure they first dug a deep trumpet shaped whole. The whole was narrow on the bottom and approximately 5 m wide at the top, ensuring in this way the safety of the builders. As the well’s wall was erected the trumpet shape whole around it was filled up and compacted with clay. This filling contained a few archaeological artefacts: pottery and a few stove tile fragments. Based on the recovered archaeological material the construction of the excavated well can be dated somewhere at the beginning of the 16th century. Nevertheless this does not mean that the well could not exist on the same spot before this date, it rather means that it was rebuilt at the beginning of the 16th century, in the place of an older one. Still we can question since when there is a well on this very spot because south and east to it we have identified a number of skeletons from the friary’s cemetery. It seems that we have identified the earliest graves of the friary, dated with two 14th century coins (Fig. 2). One coin belongs to King Charles Robert d’Anjou (1308-1342) from the 1330’s and the second coin belongs to his son Louis the Great (1342-1382) and it was released in the 1370’s.2 Fig. 2. 1. Denarius of Charles Robert from 1327. la. Front side with Angevin Coat of Arm; lb. Back side with a royal figure; 2. Denarius of Louis the Great (1373-1382); 2a. Front side with the Hungarian double cross; 2b. Back side with the Arabian head. 2Unger 1997.
