Accession No

1928.236


Description

A fragment of a ground and polished axe or adze of grey stone. It has a plano-convex cross-section that tapers towards the end.


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

1928.236; ?TS103 [Excavation no.]


Cultural Affliation


Material

Stone


Local Term


Measurements

60mm


Events

Context (Display)
Handwritten display label reads 'Toszeg, Stratum i. Bronze Age, Period iv' in black ink and '28.151, 157, 160, 236-7' added in blue ink.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad


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: Emily Shorter


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: Emily Shorter


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 1928
Author: maa


Description (Physical description)
Tip of shoe-last celt, polished green-grey stone.
Fragment of polished axe, plano-convex section, of dark bluish-grey stone
Event Date 1928
Author: maa


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: Emily Shorter


Description (Physical description)
A fragment of a ground and polished axe or adze of grey stone. It has a plano-convex cross-section that tapers towards the end.
Event Date 30/4/2024
Author: Emily Shorter


FM:50660

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