Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS271.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Part of a shaft hole axe, unidentified stone, drilled and ground Function: a shaft hole axe Black, green colour
Event Date
Author: maa

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

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

Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Part of a very large stone axe.'
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)
Polished axe made of mottled black and greenish-grey stone. Comprising of a straight cutting edge, flat sides and a truncated lens cross-section. Hole perforated near the butt end which has broken off and is not present.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth