Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Urziceni. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)

Archaeological discoveries

The inhabitance on the territory of Urziceni can not be attested with archaeological records for a period of time between 800 and 300 BC. Traces of human habitation can be detected starting with the settlement of Celtic tribes on the Tisa Plain and Transylvania, coming from the west. The pottery found here attests that the Celts established two hamlets or farms on the territory of Urziceni (near Fabrica de Hârtie Brook and at the La Păşune site).

At the construction of Romanian-Hungarian border-crossing point, at Urziceni-Vamă, a settlement of Roman Age or Early Migration Period was discovered through archaeological excavation. Within a rather large area a rectangular dwelling was discovered, which was partially destroyed. It was a semi-subterranean dwelling, going down 83 cm from the ground surface, and it had three pillar pits on the short sides, for holding the roof. The dimensions of the house were 360 x 334 cm. The fill of the house contained grey colored ceramic fragments made at the fast wheel, with rough surface, together with a boar tooth used as a pendant, and a bone comb with bilateral teeth. The pendants made of wild animal teeth (bears, wild boars) used to have the role of a talisman for the barbarian peoples. It was belived, that the pendants symbolized the power of the animal and the person wearing it would assimilate some of the animal’s powers. The bone comb with

Oase şi fragmente de ceramică din situl Râtul Vada Csont- és kerámiatöredékek a Vada Rét lelőhelyen Bone and ceramic fragments at the Râtul Vada site