Summary

Piece of tent, a strip of leather with two parallel lines of stitch marks, from the Roman site at Newstead, roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 23

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Strip of leather, 23.9 cm. x 2 cm., with two parallel lines of stitch marks. HMcC note, 1998-99: Updated from SCRAN full data set. [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

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