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III. Dan V. Sana: Archaeological Complexes and Surface Management int he Settlement
such complexes were subject of a treatment meant to remove moisture and strengthen the walls. However, the absence of a burning crust shows that there was no burning inside them. In a first phase, the utility of the pits must have been that of storing the food. Once they got degraded, they were filled with household waste (pottery, animal bones, burnt clay-and-straw mortar, mud plaster, ash, pieces of metal, stone, etc.). Such pits are present in a large number in all the researched settlements of the Hajdfibagos-Cehăluţ32 Group. As presented above, their shape and sizes vary and their archeological inventory is an extremely poor one. b) Offerings pits. Given the nature of the materials in the filling and the arranging of the inventory, more such complexes seem to belong to this category:- Complex no. 13 - pit of large size, with irregular profile and an inventory consisting of animal bones, pottery, mud fireplace plaster and a complete pot, with an unusual shape and reduced volume, of the size of a mug, deposited in the lower part of the pit, in the north-west part, with the mouth upwards (Figure 7, photograph).- Complex no. 19 - pit with an approximately circular ground-plan and irregular profile. Its main inventory consists of two overlapped grinders, placed in the southern half of the complex, on its bottom (Figure 7, drawing and photograph).- Complex no. 32 - large pit, with irregular profile and an inventory including, among others, a complete cup, discovered in the lower part of the western half, deposited with the mouth upwards (Figure 7, drawing and photograph)- Complex no. 33 - large size pit, with irregular profile, its inventory, arranged in the lower part, consisting mainly of a bi-cone-shaped pot and of a cup, both complete, arranged on one side, right near the upper part of another bi-conic pot, arranged with the mouth downwards. All these pieces were arranged towards the edges of the complex, in opposite directions: the complete pot and the cup in the southern half and the mouth of the other bi-cone shaped pot was located in the north part (Figure 8, drawing and photograph).- Complex no. 34 - large pit, with irregular profile which had as main inventory a bi-cone shaped, replenishable pot, broken on spot, arranged in the upper part of the complex, in its southern half (Figure 8, drawing and photograph). 32 Pişcolt (Németi 1978, p. 106-114), Suplacu de Barcău (Ignat 1984, p. 11-12), Cehei, Crasna, Şimleu Silvaniei, Pericei (Bejinariu 2003, p. 99-00), Nyíregzháza - Tesco (Márta 2007, p. 130), Recea (Bejinariu 2009, p. 189), to quote just the ones with the most numerous discoveries. 18
