Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Berveni. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)
Archaeological discoveries
a settlement. Traces of habitation dating from the Late Bronze Age were revealed in the banks of a canal, which crosses the northern side of the island. Traces of another settlement, dating from the Late Bronze Age, and subsequent to the settlement at Cetate site, were found near the village, at Râtul Caprei. Its traces were found in a wide area. Among the discoveries, there were the remnants of burnt walls from the dwellings, several tools and a lot of ceramic fragments, assigned by researchers to the period preceding the Gáva phase. The area of Râtul Caprei was inhabited earlier, because a settlement dating from the Copper Age (Tiszapolgár culture) was revealed here. Another habitation here is more recent, it is dated to the Celtic period. This site is rather famous, due to the discoveries found here. In one of the dwellings, a fragment of a Hellenistic amphora with stamped handle was discovered. It can be dated in the last quarter of the 3rd century BC, and it was used for importing a special liquid, which was probably olive oil or an expensive sort of wine, brought right from Crimea, from the town of Kersonesos. A third site, identified on the territory of Berveni, was discovered near the border, at Halmos. As the other sites, it was intensely inhabited. Here was a tell type settlement (with several levels of housing), dating from Middle Bronze Age (1800-1300 BC). After the people of the Ottoman culture abandoned this settlement, the area started to be inhabited again right after 1000 BC, by the people of the Gáva culture. The new habitation is attested by the presence of the specific ceramic, and by a beautiful socketed-bronze-Situl Berveni-Holmoş, vedere aeriană Börvely-Halmos lelőhely, légifotó Aerial view of the site Berveni-Holmoş 7
