Summary

Iron scythe or turf cutter from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st or 2nd century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 291

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Turf cutter. "Rom. Fron. Post." p. 284, Pl. LXI, 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

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