Bucharest, April 15 /Agerpres/ – One of the most important archaeological discoveries in Valcea in recent years – the Celtic tomb of Zatreni – is receiving international recognition, as a wide-ranging study on the research that has been carried out in the area and that reopens the debate on the complex relations between the Celts and the indigenous Getic communities in the territory of Oltenia has been published in the latest issue of the academic journal Starinar of the Institute of Archaeology, Belgrade, Serbia.

The article entitled ‘A Singing Celtic Lady In Oltenia? Unravelling an intricate find near Near Zatreni’ is signed by the two archaeologists of the Aurelian Sacerdoteanu Valcea County Museum, Ion Tutulescu and Carol Terteci, alongside archaeologist Dragos Mandescu from the Arges County Museum and engineer Dragos-Alexandru Mirea from the Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering in Bucharest.

‘It is a multidisciplinary collaboration. We carried out radio-carbon dating, metallographic investigations, and my colleague Dragos Mandescu collaborates with the entire Balkan area. This led to the publication of this article in the prestigious Belgrade journal, which, in this volume, brings together most of the researchers on the La Tene period in Europe. The discovery of Zatreni is the second one south of the Carpathians, through which the Celtic belts make their presence, and the radio-carbon dating places it in the 2nd century BC,’ said archaeologist Ion Tutulescu for AGERPRES.

The Necropolis of Zatreni was discovered by chance by a treasure hunter almost five years ago. Among the artifacts discovered were a bronze belt, a fibula of the Orlea – Maglavit type, as well as metal parts of a musical wind-blowing instrument, which led the researchers, following observations at the site of the discovery, to conclude that it is a cremation tomb belonging to a Celtic woman, possibly of a descent of the Scordisci, the iron age tribe of Central Europe.

The objects found at Zatreni are in the collection of the Aurelian Sacerdoțteanu Valcea County Museum.