The area of the village has a flat character and consists of Tertiary clays and sands, deposits of Quaternary river deposits and loose sands. The area has provided favorable living conditions for life since the Late Stone Age. The settlement was concentrated on the elevated sand dunes, which protected the settlements from floods, and therefore there are multiple traces of human residence in different periods. Archaeological research in this area has focused on Slavic sites, which have not been comprehensively examined. Findings from the prehistoric period come in most cases from surveys and collections and form a smaller part of the total set of documents of the oldest settlement. This state corresponds to the current research, further discoveries in the future are not excluded. Almost all prehistoric sites were discovered in the early 1930s by Štefan Janšák during his surveys and published with a detailed description of the condition during the discovery. One of the published localities is the Na Hrúdoch housing estate. He writes of him: "Natural security can hardly be imagined better than what this settlement is like. Whoever wants to get to it from St. John, that is, from solid ground, has to cross several bridges with several side arms and all year round wet swamps. The marshes are spread in innumerable meanders in the north and south, and in the west is the main branch of the Morava River, with a considerable height of dune, inaccessible to even the highest water and completely inaccessible surroundings, making it a first-quality settlement "/ Janšák 1930,14 /.
Traces of the Neolithic man's residence here are the findings of stone split tools from the cornea of various colors, among them scrapers, cores and pinches created during production. Later, this location was used in the Slavic period and medieval shards were also found. He found other Neolithic split tools with a friction stone made of quartz sandstone northwest of Mayor Dlhé Lúka in the St. John's area / Janšák 1930,15 /. The last find from this period - a Neolithic stone cut wedge, was purchased in 1937 for the collections of the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava.
The continuity of settlement was not interrupted even during the Bronze Age. From its early stages, we know a more unlocalized find of a jug of Únetice culture from the Early Bronze Age, listed in the catalog of the Municipal Museum in Bratislava from Moravský Svätý Ján. The later developmental stages of the Bronze Age are richer. Due to its advantageous location, the sand dune called Malá Písečná was also used several times. During the construction of the dam on the bank of Moravia, the workers found an ashtray that belongs to the culture, originally referred to as pottery driven vertically by fingers and today as a velatic culture of the Late Bronze Age. A survey of the staff of the Slovak National Museum from Bratislava revealed a flat cremation burial ground of the people of this culture. Among the unique finds is a bronze copy, stored in the collections of the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava. In 1958, M. Masaryk found it on the land of a farmers' cooperative in the Účka position near the cross. The copy has a leafy, reinforced tip in the middle. It belongs to the horizon of Kopčany velatic culture / Paulík 1972,13 /.
The refuge of the settlement of the people of the Celtic tribe from the La Tène period was provided by a sandy ridge near the owner of Dlhé Lúka, as evidenced by the shards with a high content of lead / Janšák 1930,14 /.
A bronze Roman coin, centemionalis Constantinus I, dated to 306-307, was found in the well-known depot from Moravian St. John, together with Old Slavic monuments, which we will deal with later. However, this finding cannot be taken as evidence of settlement in Roman times, as the coin could have been obtained outside the municipality's cadastre before being deposited in the depot. Two kilometers northwest of the owner of Dlhá Lúka, Štefan Janšák found shards on a circle of Roman vessels made, which he likens to finds from Leányvár and Stupava "/ Janšák 1930,15 /. If we could get more finds here in the future, it could be confirmed the existence of a Germanic settlement from Roman times.
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