Summary

Iron parade helmet and face mask, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 121

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Helmet with visor mask of iron in form of a human face. p. 168, Pl XXIX, "Rom. Fron. Post.". Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

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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