Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Turulung. Micromonografie (Satu Mare, 2009)
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territory of the Turulung locality. They are a specific type of weapon in Transylvania and in the Tisa Plain, areas where they were usually buried in groups, together with other types of weapons and bronze jewelry. The evidence we found in hoards shows they were laid on purpose. Based on this information we consider these groups, called bronze hoards, to be offerings dedicated to gods, as they were buried in the ground. The two axes found in Turulung are part of such a group, and they reached the collection of the Hungarian National Museum of Budapest, in 1899. A new settlement arose in the area of Turulung locality on the right terrace of the Tur river, in the area called Campia Morii (The Mill Plain), around the year 1000 BC. The settlement covered a rather wide area along the terrace as the spreading of the ceramic material and fragments of burnt walls show. The ceramics that were shiny-black on one side and red on the other point to the fact that the settlement belonged to the Gáva culture. This civilization flourished during the 11th -8th centuries BC, spreading over an area comprising Tisza Plain, Banat, Transylvania, Galicia and Bukovina. Traces of settlements are missing on the territory of the locality that could be dated later, during the 1st millennium BC. It is very likely that the area has been inhabited during this period, as shows the treasure comprising 64 silver coins, which were discovered in the brickyard of Turulung, in 1972. 63 pieces out of the recovered coins are copies of the Greek coins, and one is a coin issued in 260 BC by the King of Pergam. The coins were used by the Celts who lived in the north-west of Romania in the period between the middle of the Peisaj din hotarul Turulungului Látkép Túrterebes határából Landscape of Turulung Пейзаж - село Турулунг 59
