Summary

Leather shield cover from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 69

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Irregularly shaped piece of leather, on one side a semicircular excision surrounded by stitch marks, on the other marks of fork-shaped patch.

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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