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Régészet - Löffler Zsuzsanna - Borsódi Martin: Szarmata temetőrészlet Makó-Vöröskereszt II. lelőhelyen

Zsuzsanna Löffler - Martin Borsodi

A Sarmatian cemetery at Makó-Vöröskereszt 11.

A Sarmatian cemetery at Makó-Vöröskereszt II.

Zsuzsanna Löffler - Martin Borsodi

During the summer of 2015, we excavated beside Late Bronze Age and Sarmatian settlement features three Sarmatian graves as well at the site of Makó-Vöröskereszt II. Graves 22 (SNR 22) and 27 (SNR 28) were located near each other, while Grave 38 (SNR 40) was ca. 140 m further away. Grave 22 had no grave goods. Grave 27 contained a glass pitcher and a grey wheel-made vessel, a silver fibula, an iron knife with arched back and a bronze coin. Grave 38 yielded a bronze fibula and the small fragment of a grey, wheel-made vessel.

The grey wheel-made vessel and the iron knife from Grave 27 are unsuitable for more accurate dating due to their general use during the Sarmatian Period. The small bronze coin was also hard to date due to its bad state of preservation: it probably comes from the second half of

the 3rd or the first half of the 4th century. Based on its parallels, the silver wire bolt fibula can be dated to the second half of the 3rd century, while the slim, cylindrical glass beaker decorated with applied trails dates from the 3rd-4th centuries.

Due to its small size, the fragment of a grey wheel-made vessel could not be assigned to a vessel type, thus we cannot use it for the dating of the grave. Based on its analogies, the bipartite single-button fibula can be placed to the end of the 2nd or beginning of the 3rd century.

Based on the analysis of their material, the graves belong to two separate phases: Grave 38 can be dated to the end of the 2nd or beginning of the 3rd century, while Graves 22 and 27 may have been used during the end of the 3rd or beginning of the 4th century.

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