Context (Related Documents)
Labels with objects from this site read 'Copper Age. From the large mound at Herpaly, nr. Berettyoujtalu, East Hungary' and 'Later Neolithic from Herpaly, East Hungary. Joint excavations 1927 of Magyar Nemzeti Muzeum [sic] Budapest, and this Musuem.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa and Lajos Márton, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1927. See archive (LL1/4/1) for correspondence, notes, etc.
Event Date 1927
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Numerous sherds of various types, including sherds with lugs and with handles, both of coarse ware and fine wares (cf. 1928.276 - 278); sherds of carinated bowls, round-bottomed bowls, etc
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
38 sherds of grey ware. 30 rim sherds with mostly simple, upright rims, including many with small lug handles, some horizontally pierced, below rim; six body sherds; one base sherd from a bowl with very small, slightly concave base; one fragment of rim, body and base from a small bowl. Many sherds with carination. Some sherds with applied strip or boss. One body sherd with a horizontal band of small incised or stabbed marks. Most with smoothed surface. Some burnished.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou