Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)

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I. Botár

a rib on the shoulder. Although the bottoms were lifted and not cut from the wheel (one even preserved the bottom mark), the pots were made on heavy wheel clearly shown by the signs of throwing visible inside the pots. The pots and the oven can be dated to the 14th century.

Fig. 4. 1. Wood remains and the oven; 2. The three layers of the oven.

The closest analogy for these finds are known from an oven documented in Cristuru Secuiesc-Szabadság tér no. 48 (Benkő Et Al. 1997, 50-52, 66-70, fig. 5-7).6 The mug shaped stoves have good analogies in this period (Marcu-Istrate 2004, 58; Kémenes 2005,36-38). The materials from Cotorman and Cristuru Secuiesc have more similarities, not just their circumstances of discovery (both from ovens), but also their character. Based on the repeating dimensions of rim widths and bottoms as well as the fabrication technology, they are very probably products of

6 Similar finds were collected from Turia-Bálványosvár, but their archaeological context is uncertain (RÁcz 2006).