The medieval settlement is thought to date to the 11th to 13th centuries, but there is also older evidence of Roman activity at the site.
Archaeologists have uncovered a lost medieval settlement and 'unique' Roman finds on the site of a future industrial park in the central European nation of Slovakia.The researchers made the discoveries near the town of Rimavská Sobota in the southern part of the country, the Banská Bystrica Regional Monument Office announced in a press release.
The name of the historic settlement points to the possibility that it was originally founded as a horse-breeding community, according to the archaeologist.The evidence of the medieval settlement consists of pits and wells in which numerous archaeological finds, such as local white clay pottery, were retrieved.The Roman-era settlement conversely appears to have been based on metallurgy. The archaeologists made a 'unique' discovery from this period, uncovering furnaces for processing ore.
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