Ciubotă, Viorel (szerk.): Mala Kopanya. Micromonografie (Satu Mare, 2009)
3. Pidszumki vivcsennja pamjatki
The weapons that were found were represented by spear points, arrows and shield umbos. The equipment of the knight warriors contained spurs and belts. Jewelry and clothing accessories are extremely varied. They were made of bronze, silver, iron, glass and amber. They are fibulae, buckles, rings, bracelets, pendants, various beads. A special place in the early collection of the fibulae from Mala Kopanya has the Pravno Slovenské type. It is made of bronze and has two parts. The entire arch is decorated with curved and zigzag cuts. The fibula is 11 cm long. The contacts with the Empire are proved by the fibulae with pronounced profile of the type Noricum-Pannonian (Almgren 67-69, 236, 238). They were attested as being manufactured in that period through a half-manufactured fibula that was found. The sets of belts of the type noricumpannonian separated by buckles, fragments of glass and bronze vessels, made in the Roman workshops are considered imports. A very special item is a very beautiful necklace, made in a workshop in Alexandria in the 1st century B.C., depicting the image of a woman, while another one had a crystal stone. The testimony of Pliniu the Old says that Indian stones were used for manufacturing such necklaces and mineral beads. A small group of objects made of bronze, clay and stone were related to the beliefs and magic practices of the Dacians. We mention here the head of a man and the image of a man’s torso, both made of bronze. Anthropomorphic statuettes, ram vessels, antler of wild goat, pendant with phallic representation were made of clay. Among animal representations, we mention the fibula with a ram’s head and a bronze statuette of a pony. The economic development of the population is shown by monetary findings in the fortress. The 72 coins were found in different places within the fortress. The most significant group (46 pieces) are the Dacians tetradrahme (the Dacians specific coin) of the Medieşu Aurit type. The analysis of the numismatic collection of Mala Kopanya made by E. Kolnikova showed that they were imitating Roman coins, unknown until this point, except the ones from the fortress. A silver bar and a scale weigh attests the presence of a mint. There is also a cemetery within the fortress, situated 200 m north-west of the fortification, in the places called Chellenyţa and Seredniy Hrunok, which are two peaks of the volcanic mountain 48
