Cercetări în cimitirul de la Joldeşti–Botoşani

Abstract

Archaeological excavations took place in the old cemetery of the village Joldești (Botoșani county) in 1989. Joldești village is mentioned in medieval documents in 1433 and 1620-1621. The cemetery had no other traces at the surface (wooden traces) but the gravestones. Fifty-two graves have been researched. They were orientated west-cast and they often contained more skeletons. Sometimes the coffins of the dead were also found. The studios revealed that there was a Romanian cemetery from the 15th-19th ccnturies. The graves and the things discovered proved that the cemetery belonged to a modest peasant population. The inventory consists of metal and glass objects (fig. 8), as well as coins (figs. 9-10), which confirms the suggested chronology. A special case is a fibula from the lst-2nd centuries A.D. discovered in the cemetery which shows the existence in this place of an early Daco-Roman level.