Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS498 in top right hand corner of card 330.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label in black ink affixed to object reads: 'Torszeg 498. Strat XVII'.
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou

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

Context (Field collection)
Stratum XVII. 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)
Small perforated, broken bone tool. Bone unidentifiable, polished, worked, hole drilled at wider end and channel across the top. Function: possibly a bone needle. Decoration: hole and channel.
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)
One small polished bone tool, possibly a needle. One end is flat and wide, with circular perforation and transverse grooved line. The other end narrow and broken, circular in cross-section.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou