Multi-layered settlement Rudi XX (excavations in 1982)

This publication presents the results of investigations, which had began in 1980 at the Rudi XX settlement in the Soroca District of the Republic of Moldova, obtained in 1982. There was confirmed the multi-layered structure of the site and the horizon of the Iron Age was first identified. But because of the small number and inexpressiveness of the ceramic findings, this layer was previously dated by a rather long period of time – from the late Hallstatt (7th-6th centuries BC) to the Getic culture (4th-3rd centuries BC). The discovered structure in the form of a heavily burned pit was attributed, as a hypothesis, to the Getic crematorium. The production character of the early medieval settlement has been confirmed (presence of iron slag, fragments of ceramic blowing nozzles and iron ore). The remains of three ovens of the 8th-9th centuries were investigated. The collection of medieval pottery of the 6th-11th centuries and individual findings of iron, stone and bone objects was assembled.