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

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lation produced large quantities of bronze objects, among with decorated cloth-accessories (bracelets, arm spirals), weapons (swords, spear, axes), and household tools (knives, sickles, bowls). The abundance of bronze vestiges is illustrated by three bronze deposits discovered on the territory of Nagyecsed. One of the deposits comprises three celts and a sickle. It was found during the process of draining the swamp. The museum of Vásárosnamény received an ax and a sickle in 1962, discovered somewhere in the swamp of Ecedea. These two deposits can be dated between 900-800 BC. The third deposit was discovered later, in 1972, at Honvéd street, comprising seven decorated bracelets, dating from 1200-1000 BC. Two settlements of the Gáva culture were identified at the site Sárvári-halom and 400-500 meters north-east of it, at the site of the deserted medieval village of Remete. Both sites were destroyed in the mid 1970s, during the land-works. Several isolated discoveries were made dating from this age: pottery fragments, blades of obsidian and flint were recovered at the area where the river Kraszna meets the Malomárok (Mill ditch), at the corner of the Honvéd street with Nagy-vájás, at Nagy-csapás-dülő, east of Rákóczi farmer’s cooperative, and in the north-eastern corner of Nagyecsed, at Fábiánháza-Előtelek. These vestiges indicate smaller-sized settlements, perhaps hamlets.

The 8th century BC marked the beginning of a new age: the use of iron and the potter’s wheel was spread in the area. The population of the Gáva culture met

Solidus emis de Valentinianus III III. Valentinianus solidusa Solidus minted by Valentinianus III

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