Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Sanislău. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2010)

Archaeological Vestiges

On the terrace edge, near the road leading to Ciumeşti, at the site called La Hârburi (at the Shivers) (in Hungarian, Cserepes), traces of a Middle Bronze Age settlement belonging to the Ottoman culture (2000 BC - 1400 BC) were found. An intact vessel, together with a bronze bracelet, coming, probably, from a tomb, were also discovered here. It is said, that a beautifully decorated gold bracelet was found in the same place, but meanwhile it was lost. Ottoman type pottery was found in the former garden of the Agricultural Production Cooperative, near the Heleşteu (Fishpond), too.

Discoveries of the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, attributed to the Gáva culture, were found at several sites within the locality. Between 1100 and 750 BC, this archaeological culture (bearing the name of a settlement in North-Eastern Hungary) was present over huge territories, located between the middle Danube and the Prut River. An interesting cemetery of this civilization was discovered in 1968 during the plantation of an orchard, near the railway to Resighea, 4 km far from the locality. Initially, during the clearing works of the area, two nicely decorated brooches (fibulae) were discovered. Subsequently, the deep ploughing, made for planting the orchard, revealed a great number of fragmented pottery. The

Fibulă din bronz din epoca timpurie a fierului - Sanislău Livada Kora vaskori bronzfibula Szaniszló-Gyümöksös lelőhelyről Early Iron Age Brooch discovered at Sanislău Livada site

Strachină din sec. V-IV. i. Hr. Tál a Kr. e. 5-4. századb bnól Bowl - 5th-4lh centuries B. C.

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