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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