Summary

Ear guard fragment of bronze, from an auxiliary cavalry helmet, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 100 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 127

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Portion of an ear-piece of a helmet of bronze. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 166, Pl. XXXV, 10. [MoS description] Bloodshed, weapons and heroes. Roman military equipment.Auxiliary cavalry. Helmets and fittings. Ear guard fragment, Newstead. 80 - 100 AD. [Scran caption] This bronze ear guard for a helmet was found during excavations at the site of the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. It is part of a helmet worn by a member of the auxiliary cavalry between 80 and 100 AD. The guard is rectangular in shape, and curved. It is now fragmentary and corroded. There were two classes of Roman soldiers: the elite legionary and the ordinary auxiliary, each with its own equipment. Every soldier, infantry and cavalry, was fully equipped. Military equipment was mass produced. Date: Between 80 and 100 AD. Material: Bronze. Dimensions: Length: around 65 mm. Reference - Curle, J. A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1911, p 166, Pl. XXXV, 10.

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

1915

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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