Summary

Socketed iron firmer chisel with part of the original antler handle surviving, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 100 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 250

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Socketed chisel with a deerhorn haft. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl. LIX, fig. 7.

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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