Accession No

1928.231.4


Description

One piece of bone worked into a fine point, possibly a needle. Polished. Broken at the wide end.


Place

Europe; Eastern Europe; Hungary; Tószeg


Period

Early Bronze Age I Earliest Nagyrev


Source

National Museum of Hungary [donor]; Tompa, Ferenc [excavator]; Clarke, Louis Colville Gray [excavator]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

1928.231.4; TS505 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Bone


Local Term


Measurements

55mm


Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card, no. TS505 in top right hand corner of card 329.
Event Date
Author: maa


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


Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in black ink: 'Toszeg 505'.
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 fragmented pointed bone tool, bone unidentifiable, polished, worked into a point, but other end broken. Function: possibly once a bone needle.
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 piece of bone worked into a fine point, possibly a needle. Polished. Broken at the wide end.
Event Date 7/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou


FM:50637

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