Pop, Dan: The Middle Bronze Age Settlement of Petea-Csengersima (Satu Mare, 2009)

V. Catalogue of the Middle Bronze Age finds from Csengersima

fill with daub and charcoal uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, likely the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 330 x 210 cm, 10-40 cm deep.

780

Feature with oval outline, straight walls, inclined towards the outside; flat bottom. The greyyellowish fill with much charcoal and daub uncovered a great quantity of ceramics of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 220 x 500 cm; 35 cm deep.

780 B (Fig.7)

Feature with oval outline, with the walls strongly inclined towards the outside, and which met at the bottom of the pit. The grey fill uncovered a great quantity of ceramics that belonged to the Bronze Age, to the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 170 x 295 cm, 35 cm deep.

780 C (Fig.7)

Feature with rectangular outline, with straight walls and slightly inclined towards the outside. The flat bottom was slightly alveolar in the central part. The grey-yellowish fill with charcoal uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 76 x 200 cm; 20 cm deep.

782 A (Fig.8; Pl.34/1-2, 5-7)

782 was a cross-cutting assembly of features. A yellow sterile soil superimposed a part of the Bronze Age features. It was 20 cm thick in the case of 782/A. 782/A had irregular outline (slightly circular) with straight walls and flat bottom. The fill was reddish with charcoal and traces of fire, and ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus archaeological culture, phase I. Dimensions: 210 cm, A: 30 cm.

782 B (Fig.8; PI.34/3-4)

782 B occurred 8-shaped, they were likely two cross-cutting pits, oriented north-south. The grey fill with daub and little charcoal uncovered few ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus archaeological culture, phase I. Dimensions: diameters: 130 - 150 x 260 cm; 20 cm deep.

783 (Fig.8; P1.35)

Feature with oval outline; straight walls and flat bottom. The grey-yellowish fill uncovered three ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 64 x 56 cm; A was 16 cm deep.

830 (Fig.8; Pl.36-38)

Feature with oval outline; arched walls towards the bottom; flat bottom. It was cut by a Roman Age feature 770 in the eastern comer. The grey-yellowish fill with charcoal and little daub uncovered a considerable quantity of ceramics of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 274 x 150 cm; 30 cm deep.

843 (Fig.8; PI.27/8)

Feature with circular outline; straight walls but arched towards the bottom. The fill was dark with daub and charcoal. A layer of burnt daub superimposed the feature and closed it. The fill uncovered several ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Diameter: 180 cm; 50 cm deep (35 pieces).

846

Feature with oval outline, straight walls, rounded towards the flat bottom. It was cut by the Roman Age feature 845 in the northern side, then by a small feature in the eastern side and by other two small features in the south. The dark fill with little daub and charcoal uncovered only ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I. Dimensions: 150 x 215 cm; 30 cm deep (22 pieces).

849

Assembly of two or three Roman Age features. Their fill uncovered besides the Roman Age ceramics, several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I.

864

Feature with oval outline, conical in profile, very deep; it belonged to the Early Mediaeval Age (c. VIII-IV centuries AD; 46 pieces). The dark grey fill with daub and charcoal uncovered ceramic fragments of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I (2 pieces). Dimensions: 155 x 190 cm; it was researched down to 160 cm in depth, then it was flooded.

865 and 867

Several ceramic fragments of the Bronze Age, of the Suciu de Sus culture, phase I occurred around the two Roman Age features within the sondage excavation (27 pieces).

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