Accession No
1928.210 B
Description
Fragment of laminated brownish-green stone with a partially polished surface, possibly an incomplete axe or polisher. Comprising of tow flat faces, one flat side and the other slightly rounded. Both ends are fragmentary.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg
Period
Early Bronze Age Earliest Nagyrev
Source
National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1928.210 B; TS405 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
49mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS405
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Part of a polished stone axe, greenish sedimentary rock. Function: possibly used as a polisher, difficult to say which part
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 XIII. 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: 'Small piece of 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)
Fragment of laminated brownish-green stone with a partially polished surface, possibly an incomplete axe or polisher. Comprising of tow flat faces, one flat side and the other slightly rounded. Both ends are fragmentary.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:50565
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