DESCOPERIRILE ARHEOLOGICE DE TIP VATINA DIN INCINTA II DE LA CORNEŞTI‑IARCURI (JUD. TIMIŞ). RAPORT PRELIMINAR.

In the fall of 2011, at the same time with the archaeological diggings on the ground wall of Precincts IV of the Bronze Age fortification at Corneşti-Iarcuri, an archaeological survey (section T. V/2011) was made on the southern side of Precincts II (the southern terrace of the Lac Stream) (Pl. I/1). Those archaeological investigations on the basis of magnetic survey put in light a Vatina type settlement, belonging to the middle Bronze Age. Through that magnetic prospecting, a circular structure was signed down (AU. 01), limited by a wall, with the inner space of about 26. (Pl. I/2), limited by a wall. The survey section T. V/2011 aimed to identify the circular structure (AU. 01) within the area with Vatina archaeological findings and to date it. The section toward north-south cut the wall of that circular precincts AU. 01, in the southern part of it. TV/2011 dimensions: 6.0 m length, 2.00 m in breadth, with a final depth of -0.30 m in the northern side and -0.60 m in the southern one (Pl. ½, II/a). In the investigated area, the limiting wall of AU. 01 was of 2.70 m in breadth and 1.30 m depth. Archaeological artifacts were found in the wall padding; these ones belong to Vatina Culture, group Corneşti-Crvenka, respectively, from the middle Bronze Age (Pl. IV- VII). According to P. Reinecke's modified chronological system, these archaeological findings date back in phase Bz. B₁-Bz. B₂ partly. The small diameter of the precincts (AU. 01) and the circular wall small depth rule out the hypothesis of a defensive part for a certain human community. To protect or fence in animals might have been the precincts usage. Certain satellite photos plead for as in the same area two other circular precincts of about 20.00 m, and 21.00 m diameter (Pl. III/2) are visible. Google Earth satellite images (2006) point out that this structure is not a singular one, two other circular precincts of the same dimension about being visible in the east of the wall, outside Precincts II. There were no traces of pits for wooden pillars that would plead for a woody fence, but we cannot forgo the hypothesis of a fence there. A fence of brambles, which let no archaeological traces, might have been the solution at that time. New information will be brought through future archaeological investigations in the Precincts II within Corneşti-Iarcuri fortification, concerning both the inner organization and the length of time of Vatina settlement there that went before the fortification of the late Bronze Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]