Accession No
1928.235.3
Description
Stone knife. Round cutting edge curving to a point; flat faces; flat butt. Ground surfaces. Grey calcaneous sandstone, partly silicified.
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
1928.235.3
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone; Sandstone; Calcareous Sandstone
Local Term
Measurements
52mm
Events
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
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
Description (Physical description)
Worked piece of calcaneous sandstone, partly silicified, worked and ground. Function: 'knife' shaped stone tool.
Event Date 1928
Author: maa
Context (Related Documents)
See photograph of object on catalogue card.
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: 'Calcaneous sandstone, partly silicified'.
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)
Stone knife. Round cutting edge curving to a point; flat faces; flat butt. Ground surfaces. Grey calcaneous sandstone, partly silicified.
Event Date 8/5/2024
Author: Esther Laver
FM:50652
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