Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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Medieval Finds from Cotorman 303 Oven wood remains pit ? hypotetical wood remains Fig 3. Plan of the excavation (2007-2008). From the upper (A) layer beside other fragments (Pl. 1) we could eke out a pot (h. 23 cm, rim diameter 14.5 cm), a jug with handle (h. 26 cm; rim diameter 16 cm), and two fragments from a mug shaped stove (rim width 11 cm). The middle (B) layer contained fragments (PL 2) from a jug, several pots (rim widths 14.5, 23 cm), and more mug shaped stoves. More of these probably belong to each other, but during the restoration we could not match them. One of the pot bottoms had a potter’s stamp (PL 3/4). In the inferior (C) layer we found fragments (PL 3) from more mug shaped stoves, fragments of four jugs, three of them were fine, red coloured pieces, with spaded finish, the other, a larger one, made less exigently. Some pieces from an archaic pot were also found. The list is incomplete, there is very probable that more pots could have been assembled from the fragments by a restoration specialist. Regarding the interpretation, it is very important that occasionally fragments from different layers were matching. This is a clear sign that the oven was made from stored material.5 The only decoration on the pots was a shallow furrow; the jugs have the same decoration along with 5 We would like to thank J. Ács for her work regarding the restoration of the material.
