Marta, Liviu (szerk.): Satu Mare. Studii şi comunicări. Seria arheologie 26/1. (2010)
János Németi: Acâs - Râtul lui Veres (Veres-rét). The Late Bronze Age settlement
János Németi • Biconical cup shard; grey clay; short neck; decorated by parallel lines and dim fluting; fine paste tempered with fine sand. No. of inventory: 28 075, (Pl. XXVII/3). • Cup shard with brick-red handle; coarse paste tempered with crushed shards. No. of inventory: 27 884, (Pl. XXIV/1). • Large-sized storage vessel shard: rim and body; grey clay; semi-fine paste tempered with river sand; decorated by small sockets, narrow fluting flanked by two sockets. No. of inventory: 28 010, (Pl. XXIV/9). • Jar-type vessel shard: rim and body; brick-red clay; coarse paste tempered with crushed shards; decorated by a knob. No. of inventory: 28 400, (Pl. XXI/5). • Ash cap shard; brick-red clay with smoky inclusions. No. of inventory: 28 775, (PI. XXI/6). • Pot base shard; brown-cream clay; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; decorated by incised lines shaping pointed arches in the lower part. No. of inventory: 27 897, (PI. XXIII/6). • Base and body shard; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; grey clay; the base is surrounded by wide fluting. No. of inventory: 27 894, (Pl. XVIII/8). • Vessel body shard; brown-yellow clay; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; decorated by strips of parallel and vertical lines. No. of inventory: 27 873, (Pl. XXII/4). • Pot shard: base and body; grey clay; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; lacks decoration. No. of inventory: 27 837, (Pl. XVII/9). • Shard of biconical vessel; grey clay; decorated by narrow fluting, both vertical and horizontal; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; No. of inventory: 28 076, (Pl. XX/1). • Body shard of a portable cooking vessel; coarse paste tempered with crushed shards; greybrown clay; decorated by horizontal fluting. No. of inventory: 27 963, (PL XX/3). • Tureen shard: rim and body; grey clay; semi-fine paste tempered with sand; decorated by a knob surrounded by narrow fluting. No. of inventory: 29 097, (Pl. XXV/8). • Tureen shard with handle and lobate, grey rim; semi-fine paste tempered with crushed shards and sand. No. of inventory: 28 554, (PI. XVII/1). • Rim shard of a brown-cream pot tempered with sand and grog; lacks decoration. No. of inventory: 28 748, (Pl. XV/1). • Body shard of a light grey pot; semi-fine paste tempered with river sand; decorated between two parallel lines by a network lines motif (probably originates from a Wiettenberg vessel), No inventory number, (PI. XV/11). Cultural and chronological dating The stratigraphic observations drawn from Sil, SIV, SV and SVII excavated in the old Crasna river bank, clearly show a recent deposition, disturbed, which uncovered archaeological materials dating to different ages. Other two cultural layers laid below it, one was darker in colour and one was grey. Both are depositions of the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. Although the entire area was significantly disturbed by the embankment works, the archaeological features (waste pits, storage pits, piles of pottery and daub fragments, artefacts from the cultural layer) allow us to distinguish three habitation levels dating from the Bronze Age. A. Pottery dating from the end of the Ottomani culture B. Hajdiibagos/Pişcolt-Cehăluţi pottery C. Pre-Gáva (Gával) pottery A. Fine and semi-fine pottery (sand river temper, good firing in oxidizing or reducing atmosphere), often with slipped surfaces. The most frequent forms were: jugs, handled cups, large-sized or small storage vessels, bowls and tureens, portable cooking vessels, strainers, ash caps. Decorations consisted of incised lines shaping arches and dashed triangles, small sockets, oblique fluting, spirals ending in knobs (spiral ends). Coarse pottery was made of mixed paste with crushed shards, low-level firing in oxidizing atmosphere; grey coloured; socketed belt, crested knob and scanty stab and dragged motif. 276
