Gepidic Settlement? (6th century)

Of the 6th century settlement five houses and three storage pits have been located so far. Four of the houses have a regular, almost square base slide 115 with technical drawing and animation, 116, 117 with pits for pillars supporting roofs slanting in two directions, while the fifth is of an oval, irregular base. Two of the storage pits are of a cylindrical shape, and one of them slide 118  is 4.5 m deep.

Three main types can be differentiated among the pottery. One belongs to that of pottery made on a swift wheel, of grainy facture, with ribs along the body of the vessel and grooves for the lid table 2/1-6. The second type was also made on a swift wheel, but of clay without additives, it is black in color and polished on the outside photo 175, table 2/7-10. The third type was made by kneading, with fire-clay in the facture, table 2/11-12. Together with pottery clay loom weights were found in the houses photo 164, as well as bone combs photo 165, knives photo 167, spinning-wheel disks photo 166, awls photo 168, awl hones photo 169, a lead fishing-net weight photo 170, whetstones photo 171 and semi-finished products made of bone and horn photo 172. Several pieces of test clay were found in the structures from this period photo 173 from pottery makers that might belong to this period, but might also originate from the older periods and layers in which it was also documented. On one lump of baked clay which might also have been a pottery-maker’s test we can clearly see the imprint of textile - weaving photo 174.

Almost identical material was found in several sites in Srem in similar structures. It was dated to the 5th-6th century. On the territory of Bačka similar material from the 6th century was discovered in Kolut. In Romania, in the territory of Transilvania, a separate cultural group Moreşti-Bandu–Noslac was singled out, lasting from the end of the 5th to the first half of the 7th century, in which both types of pottery made on a swift wheel can be found, as well as pots made by kneading. The finds from Bačka, Srem and Transylvania are in keeping with the finds from the Hungarian region around the river Tisa. Here, in the vicinity of Solnok, a settlement was explored with square dug-in houses that had roofs slanting in two directions, and which was dated to the 6th century. The said information points towards the general dating of this settlement in Čurug to the 6th century. Considering the possible temporal coinciding of the graves and the settlements it could be presumed that they belong to the same population map 5. However, not in favor of this opinion is immediate vicinity of the houses and the graves. The described type of housing units, the burial manner and the movable finds are interpreted by most authors as Gepidic.

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