Summary

Portion of scale-armour of brass, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 118.1

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Scales of brass of a Corica squamata, 338 in number. p. 158, Pl. XXIV, "Rom. Fron. Post." FJH note, April 1996: Should be Lorica, not Corica. [MoS description] Roman military equipment. Legionary or auxiliary. (23) Scale armour, 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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