Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
Articles
300 I. Botár cases not just the context of the artefacts but even the precise location of the sites are uncertain. In such case the processing can only use the typo-chronology of distant analogies which can lead to questionable results (Botár 1999). The second and better way to proceed would be the organizing of new excavations and the publication of the documented materials. However, due to the poor financial situation and/or disinterest of the local museum for historical, archaeological research, excavations have low support from the institution. The last institutional subvention for such initiative was in 1984, during the - still unpublished -excavation of a late medieval site in Mihailem. In such circumstances the newly started (2008) archaeological program of Harghita County Council has a great importance, because after decades of silence, beside the obligatory preventive field work, archaeologists have the chance to start new researches focusing on topics which were totally neglected during the previous periods. The program includes archaeological research with the implication of four local museums; therefore the finishing of excavations and processing of the data will take several years. The discovered archaeological remains are parts of larger settlements, so in the absence of the larger contexts the interpretation of limited researched surfaces is often ambiguous. Even so, the publication of the recent material is essential, because of the uncertain completion of these excavations. Taking the present situation of accessible medieval materials from Csík Seat it is unacceptable to bestow the new finds in deposits, especially because the evaluation of these new finds is edifying not just for the local history and medieval material culture, but possibly also for the medieval history of the whole Eastern Transylvania and Székely Land. Fig. 1. Location of Cotorman in the Csík Basin; 2. Localisation of the excavation; 3. Cotorman on the 1st military survey (18th century).
