| Abstrakt: |
The rescue archeological research within the Site 2, km 21+050 - 21+250 on the future arterial highway Lugoj-Deva put in light an early medieval settlement of the 7th /8th-9th centuries, at Sălişte point, village of Susani, commune of Traian Vuia. The western side of the settlement was investigated, namely deep dwellings (14), domestic pits (13), pits for clay extraction (14), and a well. Fragments of pottery from large and small pots and also from little clay trays made the findings in the investigated archaeological complexes there. They also found some extremely rusty iron objects, spindle whorls, and fragments of whetstone. Given the context, we might use only the ceramics to set the chronology of Susani-Sălişte site; unfortunately, it also could be dated within a large period: the 7th /8th-9th centuries. In spite of this fact, an early medieval settlement certainly existed there, belonging to the Banat archaeological frame of settlements from the 7th /8th-9th centuries. Following the ceramics researching, we might conclude on the existence of two dwelling horizons there; the first one in the end of the 7th century - the 8th one, represented by a dwelling (No. 2/ complex 112) and two domestic pits (No. 8/ complex 88 and No. 14/ complex 115) where fragments of handmade pots were found, with a rough paste mixed with small broken stones and pounded fragments; some of them are decorated with cuts on rims, and clay trays dating back in the 7th-8th c. The later dwelling horizon to which the great majority of Susani-Sălişte archaeological complexes belong, dates back in the 8th-9th c. as there the slow wheeled pottery is dominant, made from a fine and semi-fine paste, usually with fragments of mica, decorated with successive rows of straight lines, of undulated lines with a row of oblique little lines. Handmade pots with a rough paste mixed with small broken stones and pounded fragments is not combined with the last mentioned one in the complexes we investigated, with the exception of pits No 8/ complex 88 and No. 14/ complex 15 with findings belonging to the end of the 7th c. - beginning of the 8th c; it might direct us to date them around the year 700. The first dwelling phase at Susani-Sălişte is in fact contemporary with other relative near settlements: Jabăr-Cotun, the 7th-8th c.; Lugoj-Ştiuca Veche, the 8th c.; Sacoşu-Mare- Burău, the 7th-8th c. The second dwelling phase dates back in the 8th-9th c., but we do not believe it to last up to the 10th century, as it is an earlier and a different yet cultural horizon from the settlements found at Remetea Mare-Gomila lui Pituţ (Timiş County), Sânandrei- Oxenbrickel (Timiş County), and Dumbrăviţa (Timiş County) which are dated back in the second half of the 9th - the first one of the 10th c. The partly investigated settlement (2012) at Susani-Sălişte enlarges the archaeological repertoire of early medieval settlements in the Banat and proves an intense dwelling in the high plane of Lugoj during the last third of the 1st millennium AD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
