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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