NMS Archaeology Object 135709: X.FRA 147 - Sword / hilt guard


Description

Summary


Ivory hilt guard from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD


Accession Number


X.FRA 147


Other references

Not recordedII 15-227

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Bone object, part of a hilt. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl. LXXXIV, 4.

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

Image

Image of Ivory hilt guard from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Ivory hilt guard from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD © National Museums Scotland

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