Summary

Iron helmet for the auxiliary cavalry, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 124

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Iron legionary helmet. p. 164, Pl XXVI, "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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