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

V. Catalogue of the Middle Bronze Age finds from Csengersima

1240 (Fig. 12; Pl.63/1-3)

Feature with circular outline and straight walls,inclined towards the outside, arched to the bottom; flat bottom. The yellow-grey fill contained daub pieces with rod traces, several ceramic fragments (9 pieces) of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, likely phase I. Dimensions: 70 x 80; 50 cm deep.

1241 (Fig.12)

Feature with oval outline; straight walls, flat bottom. The yellow fill contained daub pieces and a ceramic fragment of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus archaeological culture, likely phase I. Dimensions: 124 x 150 cm; 20 cm deep.

1246 (Pl.63/4-5)

It was a wide feature with unclear outline, cut by other features of the subsequent ages. The upper part fill was grey, and to the bottom was grey with daub and charcoal. The fill of the feature and around it, in the south-west direction, uncovered a great number of ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 190 x 900 cm; 30 cm deep.

1249 B

Small-sized feature with circular outline that belonged to the Bronze Age, to the Suciu de Sus culture, phase II, whose excavation superimposed feature 1246 and thus, the ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I were drawn into its fill. Dimensions: 44 cm; 7 cm deep.

1275 (Fig.12)

Feature with circular outline, straight walls and inclined towards the outside, flat bottom, situated under feature 1098 (a Roman Age well). The grey fill with daub and charcoal uncovered two ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase 1. Dimensions: 70 cm; 14 cm deep.

1284 B (Fig.12; Pl.64-66)

Feature with oval outline, straight walls and inclined towards the outside; the bottom was fit with a step in the south-western side. The fill was grey with yellow inclusions, and the deeper side of it was grey with charcoal and daub. It uncovered a great quantity of ceramics of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 180 x 265 cm, 40 and 60 cm deep.

1287 A (Fig.13; PI.67/1-2)

Feature with oval outline, straight walls, alveolar in profile; straight bottom. It was cut by the Roman Age feature 1287 B (well) in the half western side. The upper part of the fill was grey with charcoal and daub, and the bottom part was grey with yellow inclusions and little charcoal. Its fill uncovered three ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase 1. Dimensions: 135 x 200 cm; 50 cm deep.

1298 (Fig.13; Pl.67/3-5)

Feature with circular outline, straight walls and inclined towards the outside, flat bottom. The grey fill contained yellow inclusions, several pieces of daub and many ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (21 pieces). Diameter: 143 cm; 20 cm deep.

1302

Feature with oval outline, with straight walls inclined towards the outside; flat bottom. The grey fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (31 pieces). Dimensions: 280 x 300 cm; 20 cm deep.

1302 B

This feature appeared to have circular outline; straight walls and inclined towards the outside; flat bottom. The yellow-greyish fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 190 cm; 16 cm deep.

1304

Feature with circular outline, situated nearby feature 1302 B. Its fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Diameter: 105 cm; 25 cm deep.

1302-1303 B-C (Pl.68-70)

Many ceramic fragments were recovered until those features occurred at the sondage surface. It is most likely they belonged to the culture layer of the Bronze Age, namely feature 1152.

1307 (Pl.67/6-7)

Feature with circular outline, straight walls and flat bottom. The grey fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus culture, possibly phase I (17 pieces). Diameter: 50 cm; 6 cm deep.

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