Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card notes: 'These objects are of the 'Keszthely type' according to R.A. Smith... [but see further note by Dr Nandor Fettich].'
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Although the catalogue card originally noted that 1927.1627 A-E were from 'an Avar grave (6-9th cent.)' the subsequent note by Dr Nandor Fettich, National Museum of Hungary (transcribed on the catalogue card) implies caution as regards their relation to one another. They were sold by the Museum and 'the different objects do not, therefore, always belong together.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
1927.1627 A-E and 1927.1628 were previously mounted on a card labelled 'Tamásfalva'. (as recorded on the catalogue card)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Related Documents)
Transcribed on the catalogue card is an excerpt from a letter to Dr E.H. Minns from Dr Nandor Fettich, National Museum of Hungary, Budadpest (date unknown): 'I must correct the provenance, for it is not Tamasfalva, but CZIKO in the Komitat Tolna. Will you further allow me to inform you that the two heart-shaped ornaments in the middle (of the card) [1927.1628] do not belong to the find: they were put in with this group by the Hungarian dealer whom I know well. These two pieces should, as this dealer told me a few days ago, come from the Komitat CSONGRAD; but naturally I do not know if he has remembered accurately. The objects from Cziko he obtained from the Hungarian National Museum when I was assistant there; they were duplicates and being in need of money we exchanged these typical (common) pieces for other antiquities. The different objects, therefore, do not always belong together'.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Catalogue card reads: 'Bought by the donor [Clarke] from Heir L. Mautner, Budapest, IX, Bakabs-Ter 2.'
Event Date 1927
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1927.1627 [A-E]: 'Bronzes from an Avar grave.' Then added in a later hand: 'A) Two oblong plates ?belt tags with debased vine pattern and animal head terminals...'
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two rounded rectangular copper alloy plates, possibly belt fittings, decorated with a pattern of vines in low relief. Paired animal head terminals with ring-and-dot eyes, open jaws meeting. Each plate has four deliberate sewing holes or rivet holes, though other parts of the design are open.
Event Date 16/4/2025
Author: Lily Pencliffe