O locuință de războinic din secolul VII de la Iernut/Sfântu Gheorghe (jud. Mureş) / A 7th Century Warriorhouse at Iernut/Sfântu Gheorghe (Mureş County)
Jan. 1, 2014
Keywords:
weapons
warrior
dwelling
Early Middle Ages
războinic
locuinţă
Evul Mediu timpuriu
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Abstract
$e present study analyzes a dwelling identi
ed inside the 6th and 7th centurie’s settlement at Iernut-Sfântu
Gheorghe, containing a series of artefacts which can be related to the presence of a warrior. $e archaeological
site at Iernut-Sfântu Gheorghe village (Mureş County) is positioned at the eastern limit of the modern village,
in a place called “Pe Şes” by the locals. $e site displays a sequence of inhabitation starting from prehistory and
continuing during the Roman period and the 6th and 7th, 8th – 11th, and 12th – 14th centuries (Fig. 1.1 – 2).
Dwelling no. 1/1994 was discovered inside surface S1, it measured 3.00 × 3.10 m and it was orientated W–E.
An almost completely destroyed oven (Fig. 2.1 – 2) was identi
ed near the south-eastern corner and the whole
structure was a;ected by a strong
re. $e inventory of the dwelling consists of pottery fragments and iron objects:
a spur, a bit, an arrowhead and a spearhead (Pl. 1 – 7). $e majority of the archaeological
nds, displaying strong
traces of secondary burning, were collected from an ash layer overlapping the "oor and not from the upper layers
related to the abandonment of the dwelling. $us, the context of the discovery indicates with certainty that the
nds were used during the last phases of function and they did not arrive inside the structure after its destruction.
Dwelling L. 1/1994 from Iernut-Sfântu Gheorghe can be dated during the 7th century with the possibility of
narrowing down the period of its existence in the second half of the same century. $e archaeological
nds argue
for the identi
cation of the structure discovered at Iernut-Sfântu Gheorghe with a 7th century dwelling belonging
to a warrior.
