Accession No

1928.202.4


Description

Body sherd made up of a coarse grey fabric with brown interior and grey exterior. Decoration of a channel with two horizontal raised ridges either side, and a raised vertical ridge at one side.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg


Period

Early Bronze Age Earliest Hatvan


Source

Clarke, Louis C. G.aNational Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.202.4; TS270 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Description (Physical description)
Sherd of vessel, thick ware Very dark grey, (Munsell colour 10yr.3/1). Decoration: thick ridged channelling and vertical ridge
Event Date
Author: maa


Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS270.
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 1928.202[.1-10]: 'Pottery fragments'
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)
Body sherd made up of a coarse grey fabric with brown interior and grey exterior. Decoration of a channel with two horizontal raised ridges either side, and a raised vertical ridge at one side.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth


FM:50522

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