Description (Physical description)
Half a shaft hole axe, unidentified stone but drilled and ground Function: a shaft hole axe Black/white
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten white paper label adhered to object, reading in black ink: 'Toszeg 220. Strat. VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 204 [TS220].
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 half of a shaft hole axe of unidentified black stone with white inclusions. Drilled and polished shaft hole; ground and polished all over; signs of use on the striking face. Earliest Hatvan period.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung