NMS Archaeology Object 135853: X.FRA 288 - Scythe


Description

Summary


Iron scythe blade, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD


Accession Number


X.FRA 288


Other references

Not recordedI 15-195

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Scythe. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 284, Pl. LXII, 3. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

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 Iron scythe blade, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD © National Museums Scotland
Image of Iron scythe blade, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD © National Museums Scotland

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