Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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114 D. V. Sana-I. Bejinariu Another fragmentary needle decorated with incised horizontal lines - barely visible because of corrosion - was found in section Sl/2006 between grids 18.5-21 m, at 90 cm depth. Without being able to specify the exact place of discovery, the artefact seems to come from the brownish-green layer cut by feature C65, or possibly from this feature (Pi. 2/3). Because of its poor state of preservation, no chronological or typological considerations are possible. Another bronze object was a simple needle, with a length of 10.02 cm, without decoration. The upper part was polished, so the piece had no head. The needle appeared in a secondary position in a feature belonging to a more recent period (PI. 2/6). A bronze needle rod, round tube, discovered in feature G161/2003 (PL 2/7), and an identical, 7.5 cm long one (PI. 2/8) came from the section Sl/2006 layer culture. Because of their fragmentary state of preservation there is no possibility of chronological or typological considerations. A highly oxidized bronze pearl with the length of 1.2 cm comes from the feature Ll/1994 (Pi. 2/11). Analogies from the contemporary settlements are not known. Similar findings were mentioned in the necropolis of Stoicani, attributed to the group with the same name, dated in the middle period of the Early Iron Age (László 1994, 150). In the same dwelling a very fragile and slightly curved fine brass wire was also discovered. Because of its precarious state of conservation it could not be illustrated. Its presence at §imleu Silvaniei-Observator can be linked to the mould found in the feature L10/2001. The closest analogies from settlements for the loop ring can be mentioned from Teleac (Vasiliev Et Al. 1991, 62, fig. 18/38). A bronze arrowhead was discovered in the pit G62/96 (Bejinariu-Pop 1997, 60). The slightly curved arrowhead, from which only the fragmentary top is preserved, was broken at the end of the mounting part. The piece has two lobes, and heavily corroded, prominent median ridge (PI. 2/9). Since its fragmentary state, it cannot be precisely defined typologically, yet it is similar to the archaic Scythian type arrowheads from Teleac (Vasiliev Et Al. 1991, 57, fig. 17/11). The authors dated first to the late 7th century BC and early 6th century BC (Vasiliev Et Al. 1991, 58), while A. Ursutiu, based on its synchronization with the Basarabi type pottery decorated by impressions, proposed a dating to the second half of the 8th century BC (Ursutiu 2001, 8; Ursutiu 2002, 74). Because of the lack of early Basarabi type materials, the arrowhead from §imleu Silvaniei-Observator should rather be dated to the 7th century BC. From the site two well preserved brooches were unearthed, one belonging to the type with two torsion resorts and bow (Zweischleifige tordiertem Bogenfibeln mit Bügel), the second representing a rare form derived from the so called Violinbogenfibel type. Other objects were the waste resulting from the process of casting bronze and fragmented pieces, difficult to classify typologically because of their advanced state of degradation. From feature G25/1995 an object broken in ancient time was unearthed, with the strong side covered by oxides. Its length is only 2.1 cm, and probably it represents a fragment from the blade of a socketed axe.5 In the pit G63/1996 a fragmentary, 3 cm long bronze piece was discovered, with triangular section (PL 2/10), which seems to be the fragment of a spiralled bracelet. A small bronze tablet comes from G69/1999, while from feature G153/2003 a small piece of bronze sheet with a twisted edge was discovered, probably the foot of a Bogenfibeln type brooch (PL 2/14). In the section S2/2001, a bronze casting stump was found (PL 2/12), along with a small piece of slag. From the features C31/2006 and C45/2008 other similar findings come to surface: 5 Ii is inventoried as arrowhead (MJIAZ, C.C. 1070/1996).
