Accession No
1928.200.7
Description
Tool, possibly used for digging, made of the tibia of a sheep or goat. Highly polished surface with an articulation at one end and the other worked to form a straight slightly serrated edge.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Early Bronze Age Earliest Hatvan
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.200.7; TS305 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Bone
Local Term
Measurements
186mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS305.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Tibia of a sheep/goat, polished, worked. Proximal end cut away on the underside and made into a serrated and sharp bone tool. Function: bone tool, ?digger
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: Alana Edgeworth
Context (Field collection)
Stratum IX. 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: Alana Edgeworth
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for 1928.200[.1-11]: 'Bone implements.'
Event Date 1928
Author: Alana Edgeworth
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: Alana Edgeworth
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: Alana Edgeworth
Description (Physical description)
Tool, possibly used for digging, made of the tibia of a sheep or goat. Highly polished surface with an articulation at one end and the other worked to form a straight slightly serrated edge.
Event Date 9/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:50513
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