Cercetări arheologice la Biserica Sfânta Cuvioasă Parascheva din Maieru
Archaeological research at St. Parascheva Church in Maieru

Summary/Abstract: Following the rescue excavation carried out in the area of the Romanian Orthodox Church dedicated to Saint Parascheva, Maieru locality, Maieru commune, Bistrița-Năsăud county with LMI (List of Historical Monuments) Code: BN-II-m-A-01673, a number of archaeological complexes have been identified. We mention here, the footprints of three modern-day burial graves, oriented east-west, at a depth of 1 m, which based on the footprint of their size were adults. The pottery is fragmentary, typical of the modern era, but there are also fragments of contemporary pottery, but all the fragments are from water-carrying vessels, probably used in the liturgical rite. Very interesting are the two fragments of tombstone, one in Romanian with Cyrillic letters, the inscription attesting to a local character a certain Niculae, probably a deceased buried in that place. The monuments are simple stone slabs with a primitive sculpture that must have come from the cemetery that existed in the area when the church was built, which makes us date them presumably in the eighteenth or early nineteenth century. What is certain is that we have only one construction phase, the craftsmen involved having certain difficulties, especially on the north side, where due to the proximity of the edge of the hillside they had to dig deeper foundations on this side and resort to a series of alterations in certain points. Most likely, the intervention of the master mason Krauss from Bistrita is what regulates the construction of the church, which is visible in the area of the tower and the apse, made neatly and symmetrically.

• Details
• Contents