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The article discusses the presumed functions of the provincial Roman mortarium discovered in the 'princely' grave in Poprad-Matejovce. The vessel may have served as a container for some unspecified food, as a component of a feast accompanying a funeral ceremony, or it may have been used as a lamp. In both cases, the strong influence of Roman culture on the population of the southern zone of Barbaricum at the end of antiquity is evident. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Yadkin River Sites in the Blue Ridge Mountain Foothills of North Carolina (N.C.), U.S. It further discusses that three clay vessels recovered by Buddy Grubbs in the 1970s at the Forbush Creek Site, the west side of the Yadkin River at the U.S. Highway 421 crossing in eastern Yadkin County, N.C.; and in 1981 John Retherford of Stony Point, N.C., recovered an antler flaker, four triangle points and a relatively short Woodland stone celt.