Summary

Mower's anvil of iron, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 50 - 200 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 287

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Mower's anvil. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 284, Pl. LXII, 1. [MoS description] Tilling the soil, tending the beasts. Roman agriculture in Scotland. Animal husbandry. Collecting fodder and cleaning up. (10) Anvil to repair scythes in the field, Newstead. 50 - 200 AD.

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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