Medieșu Aurit „Castelul Lónyai”. Cercetările arheologice preventive din anul 2009

The Lónyai castle of Medieșu Aurit was built in the 17th century, on the site of a Medieval manor house. The building is ruined now, therefore rehabilitation works are planned to be carried out. A small scale rescue excavation was made at the ruins in order to provide data for geological studies and architectural project. Two trenches were opened, in order to establish the stratigraphy and the building phases. As a result of the excavation, the building features of the foundations were recorded and two ruined structures, added to the western façade were identified

A kegyelet és a kegyesség emlékei a nagybányai Szent István-templom körüli temető kora újkori sírjaiban

The town of Baia Mare / Nagybánya was one of the important centers of silver and gold-mining, and coin-minting in medieval Hungary. The earliest written source which mentions the town dates back to the beginning of the 14th century, while the town-privileges were issued at the middle of the century. According to these charters, the community of the town enjoyed considerable liberties, and settled the taxation of gold mining and processing. The parish church of the town, dedicated to King St Stephan, was built around the middle of the 14th century, and it was extended and repaired several times during its existence, until the middle of the 19th century, when it was demolished. Its remains, along with two neighboring chapels, were uncovered during the archaeological excavations in 2012 to 2014. Around the three churches, more than 700 burials were discovered. They present the usual features of the churchyard cemeteries, being rather agglomerated, in most of the cases the later burials destroyed or, at least, disturbed the earlier ones. The paper presents several late medieval and early modern burials from the churchyard cemetery, and focuses on the grave-goods. A short overview of several parallel finds will be given, and they will be analysed together with the relevant iconographic and historical sources, and ethnographic observations

The Medieval Parish Church of Baia Mare: Preliminary Results of an Archaeological Research Project

Baia Mare (Nagybánya in Hungarian, a town today in Northwestern Romania) was an important mining town in medieval Hungary. It was called Rivulus Dominarum, meaning “Lady’s Creek.” The town owed its emergence and prosperity to gold and silver mining and related minting. The town, therefore, was an important economic centre, not only in the region but also for the whole Hungarian Kingdom. Once a large parish church stood near the main square, but it became almost entirely dismantled, only its tower standing since the second half of the 19th century. From 2012 to 2014, archaeological excavations were carried out in the parish church and its surroundings; the results allow us to outline a much more detailed picture of this significant medieval building

Programe de Cercetare Științifică Privind Sătmarul Istoric. Rezultatele Proiectelor Transfrontaliere Implementate Demuzeul Județean Satu Mare în Colaborare cu Muzeul Jósa András, Nyíregyháza

Research programs on the historical County of Satu Mare. The scientific researches of the two museums are primarily focused on local and regional themes and subjects. With the beginning of the 90’s cross-border cooperation’s started to flourish in our region that has helped in bringing forward countless results in scientific research in our area. Also, with the beginning of the 90’s parallel researches were now a possibility to conduct that helped the historic city of Sătmar to be viewed in its integrity despite being separated by administrative borders of different countries. For many decades these administrative borders have separated archeological sites, ethnographic regions and of course archive documents and collections, therefore parallel research and complementary research of the historic region of Sătmar was a scientific necessity. This procedure however is not effortless, in many cases studying the historic region of Sătmar brought forward many technical challenges. For instance, the integrity of the region was studied in two languages and different terminologies, chronologies, with distinguishable implemented methods that many times have differed, leaving us sometimes with incompatible results or even worse, contradictory results. The two museum institutions therefore vowed in order to combat these difficulties encountered, to create a common framework of dialogues and cooperation in order to bring the results of research closer together. Benefiting from the opportunities cross-border cooperation has given the institutions as a supplementary plus in the field of research