Avar Graves Recently Discovered in Gâmbaș (Alba County) on the Spot Called “Ogoarele de jos”
Avar Graves Recently Discovered in Gâmbaș (Alba County) on the Spot Called “Ogoarele de jos”

Summary/Abstract: Two Avar graves were discovered in 2015 during the archaeological excavations performed onthe route of the future Sebeș-Turda highway, in the border of the settlement of Gâmbaș (Alba County), on thespot called “Ogoarele de jos”. The place of discovery is a high terrace of River Mureș, located north-east of thesettlement of Gâmbaș, at the base of “Măguricea” Hill, where River Mureș changes its course from east-west tosouth (Fig. 1a). The two funerary complexes are located on this plateau along the NNW-SSW axis, very closetothe north-western edge of the terrace, 15 m apart (Fig. 1b).The two graves date to the Middle Avar Period (650/670–710/720) and are part of the Avar environment inTransylvania/the Carpathian Basin.The two graves discovered in 2015 in Gâmbaș on the spot of “Ogoarele de jos” is 3 km in a straight line fromthe Avar cemetery in Gâmbaș/Cimitirul vechi reformat, discovered in 1911 and researched in 1913 (Fig. 1a). Itis thus very likely that the two graves in Gâmbaș – spot “Ogoarele de jos” was part of a different cemetery thanthe one in la Gâmbaș/Cimitirul reformat, researched in 1911, 1913.

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