Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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Burials in the Tärgu Mure$ Franciscan Friary. A Fourteenth Century Burial with Diadem 189 The presence of these two coins in this area means that in the fourteenth century the cemetery was still here and only a few decades later this area could be use for the building of the well. This also means that the friary should have another abandoned well somewhere and we suppose that the Franciscans would not build a well in a functioning cemetery, so the area was not used as a cemetery when the well was built. However the excavation of the well brought other more important information regarding the first functioning period of the friary from the fourteenth century, before the new, large, existing friary church was built at the beginning of the fifteenth century. The cemetery The surface of the C28 was 25 m2, it was square shaped, 5 x 5 m. In the north western third of the trench we have found the well and the construction pit, besides these we identified in the southern and eastern part of the trench the burials. Twenty graves were unearthed on a 20 m2 area. Some of the graves were incomplete either because they were partly outside the trench or because they were destroyed when the well’s pit was dug. In the southern side of the C28 we have identified the foundation trench of an east-west oriented wall. The wall was situated 0.8 m far from the southern profile of the C28 and it was completely demolished. It is also possible that it was never built only its foundation trench was dug. However the trench sectioned and disturbed a few graves. Fig. 3. The first layer of the C28 with the well and the first burials.
