Accession No
1928.180.3
Description
A piece of polished black bone, possibly the distal end of an ulna, that has been worked into a point tool.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
?Early Bronze Age
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.180.3; TS176 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone; ?Ulna
Local Term
Measurements
45mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS176
Event Date
Author: Emily Shorter
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: Emily Shorter
Context (Field collection)
Unstratified . 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 1928
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Possibly distal end of an ulna, worked/polished and possibly fire hardened. Function: pointed bone tool Black
Event Date 1928
Author: maa
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.
Event Date 1981
Author: Emily Shorter
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: Emily Shorter
Description (Physical description)
A piece of polished black bone, possibly the distal end of an ulna, that has been worked into a point tool.
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Emily Shorter
FM:50428
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