Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 34-35. (2014-2015)
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18 S. Berecki In cave 1200/11, besides Bronze Age pottery, four Late Iron Age potsherds were found: two hand-made rim fragments of pots, a grey, wheelthrown, slime tempered body fragment of a pot and another wheel-thrown, grey, slime tempered rim fragment of a cup. The two hand-made and crushed potsherd tempered brown fragments of pots presented intensive calcareous deposits on their surface; one was decorated with impressed cordon, the other with bosses (PI. 1/9-10; 2/1). From cave 1200/12 only four Late Iron Age fragments were collected. Besides the featureless potsherds, the fragments of a large, brown pot with everted and rounded rim (120 mm) and traces of secondary burning (Pi. 2/2) and the brown, crushed potsherd tempered pot’s base can be mentioned. From cave 1200/14 (Almási or Orbán Balázs) 194 fragments are kept in the collection, out of which only three hand-made, brown and greyish brown rims’ fragments tempered with sand or organic materials were from the Late Iron Age (Pi. 1/6-8). A sack-shaped pot’s neck was decorated with impressed cordon, while another fragment of a pot with vertical profile was ornamented with a boss. The third, undecorated fragment, presented slight traces of calcareous deposits on the exterior surface, while the interior of the ware kept the marks of secondary burning. The “Kőbezárt világ” registry mentions a survey on 26th October 2003; probably these materials were collected on that date. The Late Iron Age and Medieval use of cave 1200/23 was previously known.4 A Bronze Age potsherd and five undecorated Late Iron Age fragments were found in the collection: two rim fragments of hand-made dark grey pots, a hand-made body fragment of a brown pot, a body fragment of a wheel-thrown brown shallow bowl and another slime tempered, brown body fragment of a cup (PI. 2/3-4). On the exterior surface of the three hand-made fragments traces of secondary burning could be observed. From cave 1200/27 (Cseppköves) Late Iron Age materials were collected on two occasions (Pi. 2/5-7). On the first occasion, out of the twelve pottery fragments and animal bones, nine were from the Bronze Age and three from the Late Iron Age. The second survey resulted in Copper Age, Bronze Age and Migration Period pottery as well as four Late Iron Age fragments. Six of the seven hand-made brown and grey pot fragments were from the rim and one was from the body. Three potsherds presented traces of calcareous deposition on their surface. The wares were tempered with sand, one pot kept the traces of secondary burning on its interior. A rim was decorated with impressions, impressed cordon and boss, the other wares were ornamented with impressed cordon. In the cave 1200/33 (Átjáró), together with Bronze Age and Migration Period pottery, ten hand-made Late Iron Age fragments were found; eight were grey and brown rim and body fragments of pots tempered with sand, coarse sand and crushed potsherds, one belonged to a dark grey coarse sand tempered rim of a pitcher, while several fragments came from a brownish dark grey chalice tempered with sand and crushed potsherds (Pi. 2/8-9; 3). The interior of two pots and the exterior of another fragment presented traces of secondary burning. The pots were decorated with incisions, bosses, impressed cordons and impressed bosses. The “Kőbezárt világ” mentions Late Iron Age materials collected on the occasion of the survey from 28th February 2004. Three surveys undertaken in the cave 1200/36 (Kőfalas) resulted Late Iron Age pottery. The first prospection took place on 22nd October 1994 in chamber 36/C in the company of Gábor Szabó and Zoltán Kárpáti, but data about this exploration are only mentioned in the “Kőbezárt világ”. The research of the trench traced opposite the entrance on 15th March 2003, besides pottery from the Bronze Age, Migration Period and Modern Era, resulted in three Late Iron Age hand-made, brown rim and base fragments of pots (PI. 4/1-3). A rim fragment tempered with coarse sand was decorated with impressed cordon and impressions on the rim, while the base fragment presented traces of secondary burning on its interior and calcareous sediments on the exterior surface. In December 2003, together with Copper Age and Bronze Age materials, three brown, hand-made Late Iron Age rim fragments of pots with intensive calcareous deposition were also collected (Pi. 4/4). The pottery was tempered with sand and in one case with crushed potsherds, and it was ornamented with impressions on the rim and impressed cordon. One pot presented traces of secondary burning on its exterior surface. The drawing no. 352, Cave 36/H from the “Régészeti leltárkönyv”, illustrates a 22 mm in diameter and 1 mm thick “copper wire ring”. The simple, За-Rustoiu and E2a-Horedt type ring 4 Boroneant 2000, 67-68.
