Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS302.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Lower incisor of a male pig, fragmented, polished, worked. Evidence of a perforation. Function: possibly an ornament
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 1928.203 A-B: 'Beads. A. Tooth [indecipherable]. B. Dentalium'
Event Date 1928
Author: Alana Edgeworth

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue Card reads: 'A. Bead, made of a ?pig's tooth pierced near the top.'
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. Pl. 37, no. 3.
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)
Bead made of a worked lower incisor of a male pig, with a polished surface. One end partially broken with remains of a longitudinally perforated hole.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth