Accession No

1928.193.6


Description

One worked and partly polished pointed bone. Wider end with bevelled edge and a perforation, now partly broken out, just as opposing half of wider end; body tapering towards pointed end. Earliest Hatvan period.


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

1928.193.6; MAA: 1928.193/Record 6; TS258 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

?Antler; ?Bone


Local Term


Measurements

115mm


Events

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: '58' [presumably with a '2' in the beginning but area covered by paper label].
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 258. Stratum VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
Unidentifiable bone, possibly antler or a very sophisticated worked long bone. Straight, polished, perforation open at wide end, pointed, thick point
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 208 [TS258].
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Field collection)
Stratum VIII. 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
One worked and partly polished pointed bone. Wider end with bevelled edge and a perforation, now partly broken out, just as opposing half of wider end; body tapering towards pointed end. Earliest Hatvan period.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:50465

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