MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT IN SENEC-SVATY MARTIN (Stredoveke sidlisko v Senci-Svatom Martine)

• Authors: Hanuliak Milan
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The research of multicultural site is situated on the Senec-Svaty Martin hamlet north-eastern border. Its central area spreading on 450 square meters has been excavated by test pits in 1976-1978. Twenty-two settlement features of four basic categories were dated to the Early and High Middle Ages. These are four half-sunken dwellings, three half-sunken economic buildings, three cereal storage pits, seven storage pits, two outdoor domed kilns, two hearths and a trench. Heating devices were a part of the half-sunken dwellings. The cereal storing pits were of different shapes, dimensions and depth. One of the outdoor kilns had clayey dome built on quarry stones, the other dome was made of clay only. Finds of material culture are unusually few. The same applies to pottery vessels. They are mostly pots, rarely storage vessels and bowls. Shapes of their rims and motifs of engraved decoration enable us to divide the settlement features into two different chronological periods. The first horizon has been dated to the younger Great Moravian period from the end of the 9th till beginning of the 10th century. The other horizon came from the High Middle Ages, belongs to the 11th-12th century. In the collection of finds are missing those proving the continual settlement of the site. Outcomes of analyses have proved that the settlement was interrupted without any doubt between the two chronological phases. Low amount of animal bones were revealed at the settlement features, all of them belonging to domestic animals. The scythe found there is an indirect evidence of breeding animals. Clayey whorls are evidence of yarn home production; the same applies to two vessels. A find of bog ore indicates its intentional amassing. The one cereal storage pit included skeleton of an adult man. Neither the reason of his death and placing here nor why this individual was not buried at the community's burial ground is unknown. Such place for burying members of the local community has not been found in the settlement vicinity.

Keywords

EN

MATERIAL CULTURE; MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT; MIDDLE AGES; SETTLEMENT FEATURES; SLOVAKIA

Discipline

• ARCHAEOLOGY: ARCHAEOLOGY

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 293-339
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hanuliak Milan

• Milan Hanuliak, Archeologicky ustav SAV, Akademicka 2, 949 21 Nitra. Slovak Republic; www.archeol.sav.sk/archeologia.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA066416