Cercetările arheologice preventive de la Timişoara-Freidorf (raport preliminar)
The preventive archaeological excavations in Timișoara-Freidorf (preliminary report)

Summary/Abstract: Due to the construction of a hall for SC Barum Technik SRL, preventive archaeological excavations were made in Timișoara-Freidorf in 2006. The purpose of the research was to notice the stratigraphy, the limits of the ancient settlement, the chronology both of the site and of the archaeological discoveries. A settlement dated in late Eneolithic Age, another settlement dated during 3rd-4th centuries AD and a cemetery from the first half of the 5th century were found. 94 archaeological structures were discovered: pit houses – 4 dated in the Eneolithic Age and 9 during 3rd-4th centuries AD, houses – 5 dated during 3rd-4th centuries, storage pits – 2 dated in the Eneolithic Age and 23 during 3rd-4th centuries, waste pits – 2 dated in the Eneolithic Age and 24 during 3rd-4th centuries, a pottery kiln from 3rd-4th centuries, 5 inhumation graves dated in the first half of the 5th century and 21 structures without inventory, but taking into account the shape and dimensions perhaps 15 were waste pits and 6 were pits for poles. Special attention deserves the house with cellar, full of ash, covered with a wooden roof supported by poles, whose traces were found on the floor. Some brown-yellowish and black hand-made pottery fragments, stroke ornamented hand-made pottery, other adobe fragments and animal bones belong to the Eneolithic settlement (2nd millennium BC –Baden culture). Grey and red wheel-made pottery fragments, few fragments of an amphora with white paint and terra sigillata fragments were discovered in the settlement dated in the 3rd-4th centuries AD. Animal bones,shell fragments, adobe fragments, iron slag, nails and small bronze items were found, too

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