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Commentaria Archaeologica et Historica (I)
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Fig. 3. 1 – The plan of the cemetery from Ciumeşti (after RUSU 1969) (1 limits of the excavations; 2 limit of the
sand dune; 3 limit of the area destroyed before the beginning of systematic excavations; 4 modern constructions;
5 grave with helmet; 6 La Tène cremation graves; 7 La Tène inhumation graves; 8 cremation graves of the Early Iron
Age). 2 – The plan of the settlement from Ciumeşti (after ZIRRA 1980). 3, 4 – Dwellings from the settlement from
Ciumeşti (after ZIRRA 1980).
In 1984 T. Bader published another piece found on the area of the cemetery – an
iron horse-bit belonging to a common type from the northern Balkans 16 . However, there is
no evidence that the piece belonged to this grave 17 , as B. Kull has suggested 18 . The horse-bit is
nevertheless important as evidence of the connections between the Celts from Ciumeşti and the
northern Balkans. Lastly, while re-drawing the finds from the Museum of Satu Mare, B. Kull
added another fragmentary iron object, probably a scissors 19 . Still the artefact is not belonging
to the grave with helmet 20 .
16
BADER 1984.
17
NÈMETI 1992a, 139 affirmed that the horse-bit was found on the cemetery’s area after the end of the excavations.
18
KULL 1997, Fig. 38/8. The horse-bit is also included in the inventory by TELEAGĂ 2008, 15, no. 49.
19
KULL 1997, 280–281, Fig. 38.
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I. Németi made me aware that the mentioned scissors was placed in the permanent exhibition of the Museum
of Satu Mare in the same showcase with other artefacts from the grave with helmet from Ciumeşti. For this reason
the German specialist got the impression that all of the artefacts from the showcase belonged to the same grave, but
the scissors has a different provenance.