Accession No

1928.190 A


Description

Worked antler. Surface partially smoothed. One end cut across to form a flat surface, the other end irregular.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg


Period

Bronze Age Early Hatvan Earliest


Source

National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.190 A; TS200 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Antler


Local Term


Measurements

93mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS200 in top right hand corner of card 206.
Event Date
Author: maa


Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label in black ink affixed to object reads: 'Toszeg 200. Stratum VII.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: '200'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou


Context (Field collection)
Stratum VII. 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: Danlei Zhou


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: Danlei Zhou


Description (Physical description)
Fragment of antler, cut at one end fragmented at the other, worked
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: Danlei Zhou


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: Danlei Zhou


Description (Physical description)
Worked antler. Surface partially smoothed. One end cut across to form a flat surface, the other end irregular.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou


FM:50456

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