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Excavation

  • Cetatea medievală de la Tăuţ
  • Tauţ
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  • Romania
  • Arad County
  • Comuna Tauţ

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The goal of the 2004 archaeological campaign was to clarify the evolutional phases of the mediaeval structures (the church, cemetery, dwelling) excavated during the previous campaigns. On the north side of the choir we looked into the vestry, and found two construction phases: one corresponding to the Romanesque phase and one to the Gothic phase. The burial area on the north side of the church (identified during the first campaign) was surveyed in the north-west part, and the entranceway on the west side was identified. Outside, in this area we identified the traces of a house, corresponding to the settlement from the 16th – 17th centuries. In the south sector, the excavations made it possible to make out the planimetry of the churches: a Gothic hall church was built above a Romanesque hall church; the former preserved parts of the structure of the earlier edifice on the south side. The whole area excavated until now lies on a plateau surrounded by a system of vallums and double trenches that in the east segment triple. In the current stage of the excavations, we may define an early mediaeval cemetery (11th – 13th centuries), above which the first Romanesque hall church was built (13th century). Between the end of the place of worship (from the middle of the 16th century) and the settling of a community that built houses here (after the middle of the 16th century) a period of time elapsed, during which a layer of about 0.2 m was deposited. The archaeological material recovered was extremely rich and diverse. Thus, we uncovered pottery and other material (dishes, stove plates, pavement bricks), glass artifacts, iron ones (tools, weapons), bronze ones (tools, ornaments, clothing accessories), bone and horn ones, fabrics, coins, etc.

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