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  • Aşezarea de la Covasna - „Curătura"
  • Covasna
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  • Romania
  • Iași County
  • Comuna Costuleni

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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)

  • During the campaign of 2006 sections S7E and S7F were finalized. A new section, S7G, was opened in the junction area between the 2nd and 3rd terraces. At the same time basic measures of preservation have been taken for the unveiled walls. The section S7E was placed already in the previous campaigns on the second terrace and now it was extended. The aim was: to entirely unveil the bastion’s eastern corner and its side on the terrace; the inner side of the second terrace’s courtine; to entirely preserve the ESE profile for stratigraphical reason. Section S7F was marked up in the previous campaign on the 2nd terrace slope to release the SE side of the bastion and to identify the outer side of the courtine. The aims of this year campaign were all fulfilled. On the ESE profile of the section S7E two large layers of fittings out. They are delimited by a strong layer of yellow clay and pigments. Three phases of fitting out were identified in the first layer while the second level is a compact one. The situation revealed by this profile is a confirmation of what we have observed in the previous years on the ESE profile of the section S18. At the same time, a construction of large sizes was unveiled in section S 7E. It belongs to the third phase of the first level of Dacian inhabitancy. In the uncovered area the wall on the edge of the second terrace is 4.20 wide and is stuck to the ESE side of the bastion. The inner side of the wall is preserved at height 1.10 m while the outer side for 0.85 m. On its external side the wall was “laid” on a bank of gritstone and yellow soil with gritstone splinters. On its best preserved side the bastion’s SE side has a height of 3.70 m. In the southern corner of the bastion was discovered a new platform (B2) an analogy for the platform (B1) located in the western corner of the same bastion. A rich and various archaeological material was found: Dacian pottery (wheel- and hand made), fragments of terra sigillata from the Black Sea, iron and bronze brooches, bronze necklaces, bracelets, beads, bronze and silver pendants, iron knives, loom weights etc. Most of the material was found in the building researched in the section S7E. Section S7G was not finished and it will be done in the following campaigns. At the end of campaign basic conservation measures have been taken for the walls uncovered on the second terrace and the bastion. The archaeological materials of the campaign 2006 were washed up, marked and inventoried at the National History Museum of the Eastern Carpathians in Sfântu Gheorghe following the agreement signed up with this institution.

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