Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS449 in top right hand corner of card 333.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label in black ink affixed to object reads: 'Torszeg 449. Strat XV'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil: '449'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Display)
Old handwritten display label found with objects reads in black ink: 'Toszeg, stratum xv. Bronze Age, Period i'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

Context (Field collection)
Stratum XV. 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: Danlei Zhou

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: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Triangular shaped piece of fired clay, indeterminate colour. Function: interpreted as a loom weight. Decoration: complete perforation through the top.
Event Date 1928
Author: maa

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: Danlei Zhou

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: Danlei Zhou

Description (Physical description)
Conical loom weight of fired clay. Circular in plan with flat lower face and horizontal perforation near the top.
Event Date 3/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou