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Types of habitat at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age in Oltenia 11similar situation is found at Ostrovu Mare - Colonie and Mala Vrbica 19 where,under small adobe “platforms”, were discovered 3 pits with the dimensionsbetween 4 x 2m and 5 x 3.50m which was initially considered to be hut.At Ghidici, on a surface of approximate 150 X 60m, between the sanddunes and the Danube, were dogged several dwellings, from which sixbelong to the Gârla Mare settlement, two of Bistreţ Işalniţa type and fourfrom the First Iron Age 20 .The Gârla Mare type settlements have an approximate rectangularform and rounded corners. The dwelling number 1 (figure II) was destroyedin the northern part, only a 5.25 x 5.60m surface part could be contoured,taking into account the adobe and that numerous ceramic fragmentscovering the area. The dwelling had a tilt from north to south and a 3 x1.25m “threshold” in the southern end of it. Only one stake hole was foundin the southern side and another garbage pit that contained pottery andanimal bones near the eastern side. In the interior of it was found a largeamount of ceramics, fragments of anthropomorphic and ornithomorphicrepresentations, silex tools, seashells and snail shells.The dwelling number 3 (figure II) with the 9.60 x 5.50m dimension,having an approximate rectangular form with rounded corners, about whichthe author of the digging says it had a purse form, was presented as acompact surface formed from intense burned adobe peaces with a thicknessof 0.15 m, which kept traces of twigs, reed, and some secondary burnedfragments. The habitation’s clay floor was greatly cracked because of thefire that burned down the house and looked like a fireplace crust. In themiddle was the fireplace in a “shoe horse” form with the dimension of1.15 x 1.30m, and on the east and west sides were found stake holes. Thedwelling’s inventory was formed only from pottery.The dwelling number 4 (figure III) had the dimension of 6.50 x 6mwith an approximate circular form. A round fireplace with the diameter of0.80 m was situated in the southern part where the entrance was placed too,but in the opposite side was found a “silo” pit with the diameter of 0.50m,19 Mirijana Vukmanović, P. Popović, Livade a Mala Vrbica. Fouille de sondage de1980, in „Derdapske sveske”, 2, 1984, p. 91; idem, Recherches archéologique sur la localité“Livade” près de Mala Vrbica, in „Derdapske sveske”, 3, 1986, p. 7-26.20 M. Nica, Locuinţele de tip Gârla Mare şi Hallsattiene descoperite în aşezărilede la Ghdici, in „Thraco-Dacica”, XIII, 1-2, 1987, p. 16-38; idem, Cercetări arheologice înaria nord-tracică, I, Bucureşti, 1995, p.199; idem, Noi date stratigrafice şi cronologice înaşezările de tip Gârla Mare şi Hallstattian de la Ghidici, in Symposia Thracolologica, 8,Satu Mare,1990, p. 127-128; M.Nica, S. Lazăr, Locuinţele Hallstattiene descoperite laGhidici, in „Cercetări arheologice în aria nord tracă”, II, Bucureşti, 1977, p. 87-112; S.Lazăr, Contribuţii la repertoriul arheologic al jud. Dolj, in „Arhivele Olteniei”, SN, 14, 1999,p. 19-37; S. Lazăr, Cultura Vârtop în Oltenia, the Publishing House of the Foundation “ScrisulRomânesc”, Craiova, 2005, p. 88-91.