Object

Accession No

1928.198 B

Description

One roughly round stone of reddish colour with clear quartz inclusions, possibly a grinding stone or quern. One side smoothened, the other partly rough; entire stone probably affected by fire. 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

1928.198 B; TS221 [Excavation no.]

Cultural Affliation

Material

Stone; Quartzite

Local Term

Measurements

65mm

Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. 157 or TS221.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: '221'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in white ink reading: 'TOSZEG 221. STRATUM VIII'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Lump of reddish stone, smooth at one end, rough at the other, quartzite probably affected by fire. Function: grinding stone
Event Date
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung

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)
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 (Analysis)
Petrological identification by Dr. C. Forbes in January 1984: 'Quartzite'.
Event Date 1/1984
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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 roughly round stone of reddish colour with clear quartz inclusions, possibly a grinding stone or quern. One side smoothened, the other partly rough; entire stone probably affected by fire. Earliest Hatvan period.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

FM:50504