Summary

Lightweight, triangular blade carpenter's iron axe, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 235

Other references

Original description

[MOS List, Wood, II.2.5, May 1997]. Axe head: lightweight (average weight 0.77 kg.): triangular-blade carpenter's axe (Manning Type 3).

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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