MORMÂNTUL ÎN CISTĂ DE PIATRĂ DE LA ŞINCAI (JUD. MUREŞ)
THE STONE GRAVE FROM ŞINCAI (MUREŞ COUNTY)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author discusses an original manuscript of the great archaeologist of the last century. Mârton Roska, in which he presents the inventory of a stone grave, discovered on "the heathen castle" („Cetatea Păgânilor”, " Pogânyvâr "), located 3 km south- west of the Şincai village (Mureş county). This manuscript, although in many respects it is already antiquated, however does in my belief provide valuable information, and in terms of chronological classification - in the Schneckenberg culture - the author's observations are still valid. Particularly important is the fact that it has enriched the repertoire of stone graves in the area of Schneckenberg culture with one more point, up to the present unknown in the archaeological literature. This information is especially interesting, because during the five systematic excavation campaigns conducted by Valeriu Lazăr in the settlement of Şincai no other grave made of stone slabs was found. Not even the presence of such building blocks is mentioned.

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