Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 23-24. (1994)
I. Arheologie
12 SZÉKELY ZSOLT 2 At Nicoleni, on a tableland, situated at the edge of a brook was overlaped a settlement with a single house, digged in land, which has fragments of vessels, belonging to Wietenberg and Noua cultures. This fact demonstrates, that these two cultures contributed to the forming of the late stage of the Bronze Age in this region. The settlement of Ghidfaläu has three levels, which represent three different stages of evolution. The house of the superior level - which is the most recent - has not the aspect of a tranzition stage from the late Bronze Age to the first Age of Iron. Momentary we can ascertain a single fact, namely, that the vessels belonging to the Noua culture, which is considerated the tranzition stage to the Iron Age has some forms of vessels and elements of decoration, which are characteristic for the Iron Age culture, like the sack-type vessels, with knobs and with groove decoration. The tumular graves culture had, certainly an influence on the development of the Iron Age in this region, (the grave discovered at STnzieni)7. But all these discoveries don't specificate the tranzition period from the end of the Bronze Age to the first Age of the Iron. The investigations efectuated in the Olt and Tirnava Mare rivers valley gave the possibility to know some aspects of the Iron Age, in this part of Transylvania and gave the possibility for a relative chronology. The first level of the settlement from Red was considered, as an aspect of the oldest period of Hallstatt in this region, (Hallstatt A2, the Xll-th century B.C.), the others belong to the second period, (Hallstatt В.)8. The gap between the end of the Bronze Age and the first period of the Iron Age was not filled yet. This gap may be solved through the new discoveris made at Sf. \ Gheorghe and Ghidfaläu, in the Olt river valley. At the South-West extremity of the town, in a garden, during the plant working some fragments of hallstattian ceramics were discovered. The place of this discovery is situated on the right side of the road to llieni, on a bank of a little brook. Among the fragments of vessels, found on the surface, there is a fragment from a well polished vessel, black-burned, with enlarged prominence, the inferior part being empty and surrounded with grooves (pl. I). This fragment comes from a well-known vessel among the material of the Gdva culture, which belongs to the beginning stage of the Iron Age (Hallstatt A.). The other fragments are from vessels decorated with ornaments in relief, (pl. I), with grooves, (pl. I), and band of vague incisioned lines, (pl. I). 7 Idem, Culturamormintelor tumulare in sud-estul Transilvaniei, SCIVA, l.t.28.1977. pag. 125-127. 8 E. Zaharia- S. Morinlz, Cercetarea Hallstattului timpuriu in Romania. SCtV. 3. t. 16, 1965, pag. 454-455,458. E. Zaharia, Remarques sur le Hallstatt ancien de Transytvanie. Fouilles et trouvailles de Mediaу, Dacia, NS. IX. 1965, pag. 100-104. Z. Székely, Asezäri... pag. 15-16.
