The great number of sicles, axes of different size, blades
of big knives, knives are evidence testifying to the various activities of the
people who lived in that period. In
the bronze deposits one can notice, due to their number and typological variety,
objects of [PODOABA]: bracelets, pendants, necklaces, buckles of the
"eye" type", etc, ornaments, realised by cutting, with beautiful
geometrical motifs.
The material local culture from the first iron age is also
illustrated by the discovery of an extensive human settlement and of a
necropolis, both of them placed on the left tarrace of the Mures, at the west
extremity of the present-day city of Simeria.
The beginning of the settlement, very well developed from asocial and
economical point of view in early Hallstatt (8th century BCE) seems to be
connected to the invasion of the tribe Otomani, from the north, in the valley of
the Mures, in the final stage of the bronze era. The most significant [important] pieces of this settlement
are exhibited in two glass cases, black and brick-coloured pottery, polished,
occasionally decorated with prominences and grooves (dishes, cups with
superelevated ear, big pits with a bulging part and flaring lip) and also a
brass dagger which looks like a lobate leaf with strong median servure.
From the beginning of the first iron age comes three
anthropomorphical statues, made of gritstone in a primitive way, representing
gods who protects the ore, that expresses some of the attributes of this
activity: hammer-pick for mining
and the bag used for the transport of the auriferous mining, pieces discovered
at Baia de Cris, a locality from the land of Zarand. One of this anthropomorphic statues is exhibited on a central
dais. In the final stage of the Hallstatt (centuries 6-5 BCE) from the forest
steppe lands in the north part of Black Sea came to Transilvania horse cavalry,
bringing a material Scythian culture. The
Scythian discoveries from the Hunedoara land, presented in a glass case of the
exhibition, came from graves (Soimus and Deva) and formed the following funeral
inventory: remains of skeleton, pottery/funeral pot, urn, a pot of small sises
with two lateral prominences, an earthen disk decorated with cutting lines on
one side, tips of brass arrows, a knife, and a double iron axe.
At the end of the 4th century BCE from North, Celts came
in Transilvania through the valleys of Mures and Somes they had brought some
items of material culture (improved methods in processing the iron and earthen
pot made due to the potter's wheel.) techniques which would lead to a faster
development of the local Dacian tribes.
With the Celtic invasion, the utilisation of iron
generalises in Transilvania, and this in the beginning of the second iron age
also called Latene (after the eponymic settlement La Tene in Switzerland).
Items of the Celtic culture disovered at Soimus (scissors, a dagger, an
armbelt with oval) are expsed in the last glass case in the third room.