Note pe marginea mormântului cu inele de buclă de la Butuceni

Abstract

The subject we are bringing back into a discussion will focus on the relatively recent discoveries in the west of the Butuceni promontory, which, in turn, are circumscribed to the older research of a medieval cemetery in this microzone. We will refer to the discovery in 2018 resulting from the torrential summer rains, which brought to light a precariously preserved skeleton, deposited lying on its back, with the skull oriented in the NNW direction. Unlike the medieval tombs that were previously investigated in the immediate vicinity, the discovery contained an interesting funerary inventory, consisting of 11 loop rings, which I estimated at the time to be made of bronze. The evaluation of the raw material in the initial phase of the research was done only subjectively, based on visual analysis, but in the meantime, the analysis of the chemical composition of the pieces succeeded, obtaining an objective picture, but different from what was initially thought. To these data are added the results of the radiocarbon analyses, which confirm the chronological milestones we established based on the typological method, but which, taken together with other information, could provide working hypotheses that could narrow these data.