Summary

Pioneer's pickaxe or dolabra of iron, from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 230

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Pioneer's axe (dolabra), with the pointed end turned back. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 279, not illustrated.

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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