Arme și piese de harnașament din epoca Regatului dac descoperite la Bulbuc, com. Ceru-Băcăinți, jud. Alba. Considerații preliminare
Weapons and harness items from the time of the Dacian Kingdom, discovered at

Summary/Abstract: The following study, regarded solely as a necessary prologue to a more extensive research, has been committed to the presentation of some recent finds -remarkable both due to their features and to the manner they became part of museum heritage. These were five curved sica daggers, three ‘Thracian type’ horse bits and six spearheads, representing the content of five pit deposits, belonging to the Dacian Kingdom period. Other finds of similarly associated artefacts were labelled as fitting the cultural group Padea–Panagjurski Kolonii , initially located in present-day north-western Bulgaria, beginning with the 3rd c. BC, and later, starting with the next century, in Oltenia and western Muntenia, finally in south-eastern Transylvania, and further towards the Dacian Kingdom periphery. These types of associations were assigned to certain warrior Celtic-Thracian clans, amassed under the authority of the Dacian aristocracy, who apparently used them until the Roman conquest. Starting from these discoveries, the study tackled the delicate issue of metal detection by non-archaeologists, an activity with an ever more increased social appeal, difficult to control and, in a substantial amount, harmful for the archaeological heritage.

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