Accession No

1928.235.1


Description

Small fragment of red sandstone.


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

1928.235.1


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone; Sandstone


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card.
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: Esther Laver


Context (Field collection)
Stratum I. 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: Esther Laver


Description (Physical description)
Small piece of red sandstone
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: Esther Laver


Context (Analysis)
Petrological identification by Dr. C. Forbes in January 1984: 'Sandstone'.
Event Date 1/1984
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)


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: Esther Laver


Description (Physical description)
Small fragment of red sandstone.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Esther Laver


FM:50650

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