Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)

V. Catalogue of the Middle Bronze Age finds from Csengersima

544 C (Fig.4)

Feature with oval outline, with straight walls and inclined towards the outside; flat bottom. The fill was grey-yellowish with much charcoal and daub and uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 160 x 150 cm; 34 cm deep.

544 D (Fig.4)

Feature with quadrilateral outline; irregular in the south-western side, straight walls; flat bottom with a step in the eastern side, a little raised. It comprised other four features: 541, 542, 543, 544 F, and one small feature was identified under it, nearby the long western side, having oval outline and straight walls, dark grey fill, with daub and charcoal. The fill of feature 554 D was greyyellowish with daub and charcoal and uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 340 x 370 cm, 60 cm deep. The dimensions of the smaller feature in the western side: 50 x 36 cm; 30 cm deep.

544 E (Fig.4)

Feature with circular outline, straight walls and inclined towards the outside; flat bottom. The fill was grey with yellow inclusions, difficult to delimit in the soil around it, with daub and charcoal. It uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Diameter: 130 cm; A: 15 cm.

544 F (Fig.4)

Feature with circular outline; it was excavated within feature 554 and both of them had similar fill. It is not certain if it was a different feature, but the connection between the two suggested that. The fill uncovered two ceramic fragments of the bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, it likely belonged to phase I. Diameter: 140 cm; 35 cm deep.

545 (Fig.4)

Feature with circular outline, straight walls, inclined towards the outside, flat bottom, slightly deepened into the sterile soil. The fill was grey-yellowish with daub and charcoal. It uncovered several ceramic fragments and a fragmented miniature of a cart of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase 1(10 pieces). Diameter: 90 cm, 16 cm deep.

549 (Fig.4)

Feature with oval outline, straight walls and inclined towards the inside, arched where they met the bottom; flat bottom. The grey-yellowish fill with daub and charcoal uncovered ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (20 pieces). Dimensions: 100 x 152 cm, 46 cm deep.

554 A (Fig.5)

Small feature with circular outline, straight walls and slightly arched towards the outside, slightly arched towards the bottom; flat bottom; dark-grey fill. The fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (7 pieces). It's not sure this feature belonged to this culture as it was excavated within feature 554 B, and it wasn't deeper than the latter. Thus, it can be assumed that 554 A belonged to one of the civilizations that inhabited the settlement subsequently, and the ceramic fragments in it might have fallen from the fill of the pit 554 B. Diameter: 50 cm; 20 cm deep.

554 B-C (Fig.5; P1.12)

Feature 554 B had oval outline, straight walls and inclined towards the outside, straight bottom,slightly arched in the east; the fill was grey-yellowish with charcoal. The north-western side cross-cut a smaller feature, 554 C, which had an oval outline and with similar fill to the first one. It is most likely that 554 B and 554 C made up one large feature, maybe a house of 211x190 cm in size. Their fill uncovered ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (30 pieces). Dimensions 554 B: 142 x 188 cm; 22-35 cm deep; 554 C: 82 x 104 cm, 20 cm deep.

559 (Fig.5)

Feature with oval outline, straight walls in the west and inclined towards the outside in the east; flat bottom; the fill was dark-grey with daub and charcoal. The fill uncovered only few ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase 1 (4 pieces). Diameter: 50 x 60 cm; 20 cm deep.

561 A

Large-sized feature of the Roman Age, with dark fill, daub and charcoal in it, a little light in the eastern side. The west side cut another feature of the Roman Age (561 B). Its fill uncovered

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