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

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 Peștiș 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.