Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Căpleni. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)

Archaeological vestiges

fibulae, decorating cloth needles, and sickles. The greater part of the objects were folded or broken, which was a common feature in other deposits of the period hidden around 1100 and 1000 B.C. The treatment of the objects aimed probably to put them out of use, an argument which calls for considering them religious offerings buried in the ground. At the bank of the Post Canal, Iron Age, Celtic ceramic fragments were revealed (La Téne period, 3rd and 2nd centuries BC). The settlement was rather large, reaching the left bank of Crasna river.

At the settlement of Cozard, dating from the Roman Imperial Age, a pit was partially researched (3/1984) containing specific ceramic of the Przeworsk culture (assigned to the Germanic Vandals), together with a very corroded iron fibula, dating from the 3rd and 4th centuries A.D. Another settlement (with a lot of ceramic fragments and daub) dating from the Age of Migrations (5th and 6th centuries) was identified in the left bank of Crasna river, on a small height in the swamp area. A more recent settlement, dating from the 7th and 8th centuries was found near the left side dam of the Posta brook, along the field road leading towards the Crasna river. The materials found here, in one of the dwellings, suggest that the settlement belonged to the Late Avars. Fragments of rough ceramic, decorated with wavy bands of lines, attests a settlement dating from the 8th and 9th centuries, found at the site Câmpul Raţ.

Căpleni - vedere aeriană Kaplony - légifelvétel Căpleni - aerial view

Situl arheologic Căpleni-Kirăly-foldek Kaplony-Király-földek, lelőhely The site Căpleni-Kirăly-foldek

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