NMS Archaeology Object 135784: X.FRA 219 - Ferrule, spear


Description

Summary


Knobbed iron spear ferrule containing some of the wood of the shaft, from the Roman site at Newstead


Accession Number


X.FRA 219


Other references

Not recordedI 15-60

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Knob-headed Spear-ferrule of iron, 5 cm. long, containing some of the wood of the shaft. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 189, Pl. XXXVIII, fig. 13.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

Newstead Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1905

Method (e.g. excavation)

Excavated

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

1915

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

None

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