Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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58 В. Rezi Last but not least the presence of a small creek, at around 300 m from the find spot, has to be mentioned. Normally a direct connection between the current and the bronze hoard cannot be made, but the different theories regarding a wet find spot in the case of the bronze hoards is very well known. But taking into consideration the general characteristics of the field and the relative distance towards the creek, the placement of the hoard from Sämbria§ in the category of the slope finds is more plausible.110 Anyhow the presence of the peak, the Darvas creek, and the slope from where there is a very good visibility on the whole valley of Sämbria§ make enough arguments for considering this finding place having some supernatural meanings and significance. In spite of these and without knowing the exact conditions of the recovery, without the exact placement of the artefacts in the ground a clear answer or conclusion is very difficult to give. Fig. 2. The Darvas creek in the background. Finally it has to be stressed out that the hoard from Sambria§, although it remained incomplete and the information regarding the metal vessels have to be questioned, it organically adapts to the hoarding phenomenon from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the early Iron Age in Transylvania. Through the socketed hammer already published and through this new re-evaluation of the hoard from Sambria$, the boundary of the village appears as a place with important and rich prehistoric bronze artefacts. The more or less reliable information given by the locals and the witnesses only completes and fulfils these findings. Based on the above mentioned typological characteristics, chronological frameworks and listed analogies, I believe that a HaB2 dating (9lh century BC) is proper, without a continuation in HaB3. There is no single piece in the hoard from Sámbria?, which sustains this later positioning. The socketed axe with concave rim (nr. 5), the socketed hammer (nr. 6) and the knife fragment (nr. 8) are quite interesting, which prove the heritage of some HaBl artefacts in the new HaB2 period. 110 Soroceanu 1995, 23, footnote 33. It mentions that during the Bronze Age a preference for the south orientated slopes can be observed (or its variants), but in the HaB period the north orientated slopes are dominant (or its variants).
