NMS Archaeology Object 135675: X.FRA 116.1 - Armour, laminated / arm guard / fragment


Description

Summary


Upper part of a lamellar arm guard of bronze, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD


Accession Number


X.FRA 116.1


Other references

Not recordedXII 14-145

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Fragments of laminated armour in bronze. See p. 159, Pl. XXIII, "Rom. Fron. Post." FJH note, April 1996: Now interpreted as a lamellar arm-guard. [MoS description] Romal military equipment. Legionary. (5) Arm guard, 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 Upper part of a lamellar arm guard of bronze, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Upper part of a lamellar arm guard of bronze, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland

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