NMS Archaeology Object 135574: X.FRA 16 - Tent / portion


Description

Summary


Two pieces of tent, strips of leather with stitch marks along both edges, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD


Accession Number


X.FRA 16


Other references

Register numberX.XII.14.45

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Strip of leather, 1.5 cm. in breadth, stitch marks along both edges. (Two pieces). [MoS description] Bloodshed, heroes and weapons. Living on the move. A Roman tent. (1) Pieces of tent, Newstead. 80 - 180 AD.

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

1914

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

Image of Two pieces of tent, strips of leather with stitch marks along both edges, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Two pieces of tent, strips of leather with stitch marks along both edges, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland

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