The Archaeological Site of Negrilești. Preventive Investigations on the Point „School Gym” Cover Image

Situl arheologic Negrilești. Cercetarea preventivă din punctul „Sala de educație fizică școlară”
The Archaeological Site of Negrilești. Preventive Investigations on the Point „School Gym”

Author(s): Costel Ilie
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World, Modern Age, Prehistory
Published by: Muzeul de Istorie „Paul Păltănea” Galaţi
Keywords: archaeological research; Negrilești-Schoolyard site; Negrilești - School Yard site; Late Bronze Age; Early Middle Ages; household pits; dwellings; fire installation;

Summary/Abstract: The City Hall of Negrilești and „Florea Julea” Secondary School in Negrilesti intend to build a school gym on a plot of land located in the archaeological site, 6m West of the S-W corner of the school building. The discharge of the archaeological burden of this PLOT, with an area of 816 square meters, was undertaken by investigating the SSP/2021 surface, through machine scalping the vegetation layer, up to a depth of 0.30m. In the SSP surface, where the school gym will be built, 42 housing complexes from the Bronze Age, the post-Roman period (4th century AD), pre-medieval (9th-10th centuries AD) and the modern era were unearthed. The most numerous complexes are pits with household deposits, 26 in total. Materials specific to the Bronze Age, Noua Culture, were discovered in 18 pits, five pits containing materials from the 4th century AD (Santana de Mures-Černjachov Culture), whereas the remaining three pits belong to the modern period. Nine complexes are residential structures, dwellings or outbuildings, out of which three belong to the Bronze Age, three are from the 4th century AD, two dwellings belong to the 9th-10th centuries AD and one is from the modern period. Eight fire installations (domestic hearths) were also investigated, five of which belong to the post-Roman period (4th century AD), two hearths served homes from the 9th-10th centuries AD, and one is from the modern period.

  • Issue Year: 39/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 7-21
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian