Accession No
1928.215
Description
Loom weight made of a coarse yellowish brown fabric. Sub triangular in shape with flat sides and base. Fragment of the top has broken off and is not present. Remains of a longitudinally perforated hole at the top.
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
1928.215; TS422 [Excavation no.]
Cultural Affliation
Material
Clay
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on card, no. TS 422.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Triangular piece of baked clay, solid. Function: loom weight Light yellowish brown, (Munsell colour 10yr.6/4). Decoration: remaining evidence of a perforation
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 XIV. 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)
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)
Loom weight made of a coarse yellowish brown fabric. Sub triangular in shape with flat sides and base. Fragment of the top has broken off and is not present. Remains of a longitudinally perforated hole at the top.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:50581
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