Hoarding for value roman denarii and their imitations the hoard Pestis 1 - Cristian Gazdac

The village of Pestis is located in the NW part of Romania Bihor County a locality under the administration of Alesd city. From the relief point of view the settlement is placed on the southern branch of the Plopis Ses Mountains map 1 . The first archaeological remains in the area of Pe ti were noticed in the 1970 s when the palaeontologist Tiberiu Jurcsak pints out the cave Piatra Jurcoaiei Piatra Jurcoaii . Following this information in 1970 the archaeologist Doina Ignat opened a testing excavation in this cave and demonstrated solid evidence dated in the Middle Neolithic Age. Among the most remarkable finds are a child grave aged 6 8 years with ceramic vessels a deer bone socket and five bone beads as funerary inventory. This discovery was followed by similar ones from the adjacent area of the Crisul Repede River basin from Suncuius the cave Unguru Mare Vadu Crisului- Pestera Devent II the cave Subpiatra from Astileu.