Migration Period Graves Recently Discovered in Sânpaul (jud. Cluj / RO)

Abstract

During rescue excavations along the future A3 Transylvania Motorway three graves from the Migration period were found. The graves have within their inventories prestigious items that define the »Danubian fashion« – an international fashion, difficult to assign ethnically, characterized by pairs of large silver brooches (with a semi-circular head plate), buckles, combs, beads, etc. The deceased buried at Sânpaul belonged to the aristocratic class of the middle or beginning of the second half of the 5th century, elites very well represented in the Carpathian Basin and Transylvania.