During the rescue archaeological excavation in Šaľa-Veča in 2002 a settlement from Roman Period has been discovered. On the basis of the current analysis of excavated material it can be dated between the second half of the 2nd century AD and the first half of the 3rd century AD. In this paper an elementary interpretation of 27 glass artefacts will be discussed, of which 15 are fragments of glass vessels, another 11 are fragments of jewellery (beads) and one is a glass bracelet. A broad typological variety has been indicated by the analysis, showing that the vessels here found were not manufactured only in adjacent Pannonia, but also in more distant manufactories of Rhineland. The beads, the most numerous part of the jewellery, were of various shape, colour and size. The glass bracelet is rather a rare find in Slovakia, having only four parallels in other sites from Roman times.
The lords of Lučenec probably founded the castle sometime at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. It belonged to their descendants until the end of the 15th century, when the Ongor family became the new owners. After 1512, the Balassa family became the new owners. Throughout the middle ages, Divín remained a small aristocratic castle called mantle type with simple fortification. Its significant expansion and improvement of the fortifications was associated only with Sigismund and John Balassa, when due to the Ottoman danger, the population of the Novohrad region had to participate in the modernization of Divín, according to the adopted laws. Despite this effort, the castle fell into the hands of the Ottomans in the years 1575–1593 and became the northernmost occupied castle in Hungary. After the conquest of the castle by Habsburg troops, Divín returned to the hands of the Balassa family, who in the 17th century took care of the expansion of the living space and planned further improvements of the fortifications.
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