Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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292 К. László-A. Péntek-L. Lenkey archaeological structures. Therefore with the support of the Mures County Museum in the April of 2010 we managed to perform geophysical surveys on the territory of the fort, which was preceded by aerial topography (Z. Sods, M. Szabó and Z. Czajlik) and field work of Sz. Pánczél and K. László. In the present article, besides the short history of the research we present the results of the geophysical measurements with the note that the whole territory of the fort could not be measured because of the dense vegetation (wattles/locust-trees) especially on the margins of the hill. Magnetic survey was carried out to map the structure of the fort and a geoelectric section was measured to obtain information about the depth of these structures. The location of the medieval hill fort and its history of research Moresti lies on the right bank of the Mures River in a south-west direction at a distance of 11 km from Tärgu Mures (Fig. 1). The fort lies on the southern part of the north-south oriented hill above the road, which goes along the northern bank of the Mures River, on the western side of the village (Pi. 1/1). The western, eastern and southern side of the fort is flanked by steep slopes. The locals call the Mures plateau, which rises above the village, Podei, while its southern end is called Cetate. The place called Cetate as a possible site of the fort was already mentioned by K. Benkő in the 19th century (Benkő 1869, 323-324). В. Orbán (1870, 219-220) also mentions the places called Cetate and Podei, where, according to the tradition, on the first place the fort and on the second place the fortified camp of the guards stood. Fig. 1. Moresti and the plateau above it on the Second Military Survey (1806-1869). The middle of the 20th century meant a crucial turn in the research of the hillfort from Moresti, when, with the support of the Academy of Sciences of the Romanian Republic a large Slavic research program had started in Transylvania (Horedt 1952, 311). In the framework of this program the archaeological excavations at Moresti took place between 1951 and 1956, led by K. Horedt. A pot (Horedt 1951, 200, pl. XI/10) and a double-edged sword (Horedt 1952, 329,
