SĂPĂTURI ARHEOLOGICE LA GLIGOREŞTI (Jud. CLUJ) - 1990

In July 1990 the Romania Institute of· TracologysUPRorted fmancially an archaeological researching. project on the surrounding the village Gligoreştji,.Cluj district.The diggmg were made' at "La Holoame" place (fig. 2), ahigher area, situaţed at the meeting point of Arieş and Mureş rivers. The researched area covered 84.75m2• ' The stratigraphy are the following: O - O,20/25m blavk-graysh earth, level destroyed by agricultural works; O,2012~ - O,45/65m black earth, pigmante,(1 adobe and mortar level, belollgs tothe Roman period; in .trench 1, between 11-15m, at the base of the Roman level, there were found a blak...graysh band of eart~ 0,25 fi thick, level belonging to' the Hllllstatt period; be· tween the depht of d,45165 ... I ,0Q/l ,30m the cultural stiatum has a gray calaur and belongs , to the Early Bronze period. In trahch 2, at .thebase of th~ gray level. betweetl O .. Iim, an 0,40 thickness, a. darker ,shade ·of I earth was observed, wich made us to· draw it onprofiles. J3etween the depl~ of 1,30 ... 1.50Ip5m, a yţUow colaur earthand with a clay, ponsistance, 00... longing to NeoUthic period; was found. From the depth of 1,50/55, .. a sandy.. 1evcl a,ppears, witbout archaeol(.gica1 traces (fig. 11, a...b). . The neollthica1 materials· wm be studiedby coUcgue· FI. Draşovean;· stiU some speciti... cation may be dane: the ceramicsll belonged to Late Neolithic, aud it was p'""ted with bitu... men, afterbumiJlg. I an a secondary postion, s~me Cotofeni shards, at' the beginning of tne 3'dstage, was fo6.nd' (fig. 3/1 ... 13). The Barly Brbnze materials (fig. 4... 1~), belong to the 2"" stage of the EarlY Bronze ·AJ~e in TransUvani~, being characteristic to 'the so called hoti~onwith "cuffs" ("tnanschete';). ()n' the secondary Iposition. in the Roman level, was' found some shards belonging ta the NIiddle Bronze Ag~ ,