Miscellanea Historica et Archaeologica in Memoriam Dumitru Berciu (ediderunt: Constantin Augustus Bărbulescu, Costin Croitoru, Ovidiu Vasile Udrescu) Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei „Carol I”, Brăila-Râmnicu Vâlcea, 2020, pp. 67-92. DATE NOI DESPRE BURIDAVA. ÎNSEMNĂRI INEDITE DIN JURNALUL LUI DUMITRU BERCIU NEW DATA ABOUT BURIDAVA. UNPUBLISHED NOTES FROM DUMITRU BERCIU'S JURNAL Constantin Augustus Bărbulescu, (Universitatea din Pitești) Ovidiu Vasile Udrescu, (Universitatea din Pitești) Laurențiu Mecu, (UM 02493 Pitești) Alexandru Iulius Nălbitoru (Școala gimnazială Măgura, Vâlcea) Abstract: the idea of a history of the researches on the Ocnița - Cosota - Buridava sites is not new. The material below only aims to be an introduction to a history that is difficult to rediscover and rewrite. Our attempt to reconstruct a part of the site’s history was supported by the Vasile Pârvan National Institute of Archeology, the Teohari Antonescu Museum in Giurgiu, the National Archives, Constanța Branch and by Professor Adina Berciu-Drăghiceanu. We managed to put together only a small part of the research from Ocnita, the other one seems to be lost. Undoubtedly there are many deficiencies related to the understanding of the archaeological research carried out in Ocnita until 1993; most of them are due to the disappearance of a significant part of Professor Berciu’s archive. Under these circumstances, we limited ourselves to reproducing only some of his notes and writings from the years mentioned above, in order to reconstruct at least the site atmosphere and the elements less present in the various studies, articles or research reports. Keywords: Ocnița, Buridava, history of the researches, archives, 1960-1992 Recurs la istorie. Ideea unui istoric al cercetărilor siturilor de la Ocnița – Cosota – Buridava nu este nouă. Materialul de mai jos nu își propune decât să fie o introducere într-o istorie greu de redescoperit și rescris. Încercarea noastră de a reconstitui o parte a istoriei sitului a fost sprijinită de Institutul Național de Arheologie „Vasile Pârvan”, Muzeul „Teohari Antonescu” de la Giurgiu, Arhivele