NMS Archaeology Object 135680: X.FRA 120 - Armour, chain-mail / fragment

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Description

Summary

Fragments of fine chain-mail of bronze, lorica plumata, with scales, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 120

Other references

Register number Erroneously assigned provisional 1997 MoS Register number	X.XII.14.154 X.1997.253

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Remains of bronze chain armour, p. 161. Pl XXXVIII, 8, "Rom. Fron. Post." R.B.K.S. notes: small fragments. [MoS List, Warfare, II.4.1, October 1997 - Non Specific (legionary or auxiliary); Armour; Lorica plumata, Newstead]. Updated from SCRAN full data set. [MoS description] Roman military equipment. Legionary or auxiliary. (25) Fine chain mail with scales, 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)