Virag, Cristian: Situl neolitic Halmeu - Vamă (Satu Mare, 2015)

Abridged version

Cx. 44 is an oval feature (1 x 0.5 m), representing a bothros and depicting the ritual deposition of a ceramic pot deliberately broken. The walls were straight and the bottom flat. The feature was 0.28 m deep. The feature used to be a posthole and on the south-eastern side the feature deepened into the proper posthole. The vessel was laid on the margin of the proper posthole (fig. 100, 101);

Cx. 45 is a foundation trench for the wall of a surface dwelling (3.80 x 0.30 m) with dark brown fill and no ceramics. The depth of the feature was 0.24 m (fig. 100). The walls were straight and the bottom flat.

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Cx. 46 is a large oval feature (14 x 3 m) captured partially in the northern side of the excavated surface (fig. 102). There was discovered a rich Neolithic ceramic material, with complete or restorable vessels. The fill was dark brown and the feature had a maximum depth of 1 m. The feature descended in stepped, oblique walls towards a flat bottom;

Cx. 47 was a round, Bronze Age feature (1.5 x 1.5 m) with scanty ceramic material. The fill was grey and the maximum depth of the feature went down to 0.40 m (fig. 102). The walls were straight and the bottom flat.

2009

During this year has been researched the area planned for expansion towards the entry into the country coming from Ukraine. The area was heavily disturbed by the old roadway works and sewage system. In the less affected surface there was an area of 50 x 10 m submitted to research.

Features

Cx. 1 (2 X 1.5 m) is a circular feature, disturbed by modern anthropic interventions and

only partially captured (fig. 118). Its walls were oblique, its bottom flat and had a clayey dark brown fill. The inventory was scanty as only few pottery fragments were discovered. The feature was 0.50 m deep;

Cx. 2 (0.7 X 0.4 m) was a small, oval feature that revealed two pottery sherds that

belonged to a quadrilateral vessel decorated by incision (fig. 118). Its walls were oblique, the bottom flat and the fill was was a dark brown clay. The feature was

0.15 m deep;

Cx. 4 (1.4 X 1.3 m) oval feature with scanty Neolithic pottery. The walls were straight,

the bottom flat and the fill was dark brown. The feature was 0.50 m deep (fig. 118). Cx. 5 (4 X 0.4 m) is a partially captured ditch with no ceramic material. The walls were

straight, the bottom flat and the fill dark brown. The feature was 0.60 m deep (fig. 118);

Cx. 6 (5 X 0.3 m) is a partially captured ditch without archaeological material. The walls

are straight, the bottom flat and the fill dark brown. The feature was 0.20 m deep (fig. 118);

Cx. 7 (1.1 X 0.6 m) is a rectangular feature that extended into a ditch (Cx. 7/1). The walls

were straight, the bottom flat and the fill dark brown (fig. 118). Cx. 7/1 was in the same line with Cx. 6. We think the two ditches relate to one another;

Cx. 8 (8 X 0,3 m) was a ditch, partially captured (fig. 118), with no ceramic material. The

walls were oblique and V-shaped and the fill was dark brown. The depth of the feature was 0.16 m.

It is worth mentioning that Cx. 5, Cx. 6 and Cx. 8 were parallel and the distance between Cx. 5 and Cx. 6 was 16 m The distance between Cx. 6 and Cx. 8 was 11m.

Abriged version

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