Description (Labels & Markings)
Catalogue card description: 'Rim and handle sherd of a handled vessel, thin ware, burnished both sides. Function: flared neck vessel. Dark yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.4/4). Decoration: stabbed dot decoration beneath the handle, row of dots beneath the rim.'
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS238.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

Description (Labels & Markings)
A white hand written label adhered to the object reads 'Toszeg 238. Stratum VIII 28.195.' in black ink, very faint.
Event Date
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson

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: 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

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: 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)
One rim sherd from a handled vessel of dark yellowish brown to black coloured fabric, with highly burnished external surfaces. Everted rim; row of stabbed dots just below the external rim edge; concave neck; vertical strap handle of triangular cross-section between the rim and the base of the neck; horizontal incised line marked with stabbed dots at the base of the neck; two rows of stabbed dots between the base of the neck and the shoulder; sharply angled carination on the shoulder.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad