Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 153. Stratum V 28.178.' in black ink.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
Object marked '151' in pencil.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 2 description: 'Lump of fired clay, L shaped, coarse. Function: a piece of hearth grating. Light reddish brown, (Munsell colour 5yr.6/4). Decoration: raised supports.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS153(b).
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Context (Field collection)
Stratum V. Joint excavation by Ferenc Tompa, National Museum of Hungary and Louis C.G. Clarke, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in 1927. See archive (LL1/4/1 – LL1/4/3) for correspondence, notes, drawings, etc.
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Context (References)
Childe, V. Gordon. (1927). ‘A Bronze Age Village in Hungary: A Thousand Years of Prehistory’. The Illustrated London News, 24 September 1927, p. 498.
Event Date 1927
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card 1 description: 'Fragment of ill-baked reddish clay, with rounded edges indented by ?thumb impressions.'
Event Date 1928
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Analysis)
Catalogue card 2 notes: 'This formed part of a hearth of fire-place. cf. 1928.175'.
Event Date 1928
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (References)
Schalk, Emily. (1981). ‘Die Frühbronzezeitliche Tellsiedlung bei Tószeg, Ostungarn, mit Fundmaterial aus der Sammlung Groningen (Niederlande) und Cambridge (Großbritannien)’. Dacia, vol. 25. pp. 63–129. Fig. 35, no. 261.
Event Date 1981
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (References)
Leighton, Mary and Stig Sorensen, Marie Louise. (2004). 'Breathing Life into the Archives: Reflections Upon Decontextualization and the Curatorial History of V.G. Childe and the Material from Toszeg'. European Journal of Archaeology, vol. 7. pp. 41-60.
Event Date 2004
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
A fragment of a hearth grating made of coarse, light reddish brown fired clay with a grey core. L-shaped with raised supports: one arm has a thick, rounded edge and four, pinched, vertical ridges; the other arm has a raised sub-rectangular outline, with a thumb impression in the centre and a ridge extending from the top and bottom.
Event Date 10/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad