Summary

Five rods of forged iron, pieces of a grille from an ornate wooden cabinet, from the Roman site at Newstead, Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 311

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Forged rods of iron, probably part of the framework of a seat. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 286. Pl. LXIV, 1, 2, 4 + 5. (No. 214 is 13" in length). Updated from SCRAN full data set. [MoS description] About the house. Interior decoration. Furniture and fittings. (1) Pieces of metal grille from an ornate wooden cabinet, Newstead. 80 - 180 AD. [Scran caption] These five iron rods formed part of a metal grille probably on an ornate wooden cabinet or cupboard. They were found during excavations at the site of the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. They date from between 80 and 180 AD. The five rods are made from forged iron, designed to look like turned woodwork. They have mouldings expanding at a central point into a larger disc. All are broken and incomplete. Usually all that survives of Roman furniture are the metal rods or fittings. Complete examples from Herculaneum in Italy, together with some pictures and surviving wooden fragments, show that the Romans used chairs, tables, couches, beds and chests. Date: Between 80 and 180 AD. Material: Iron. Dimensions: Length of longest rod: 33.0 cm. Reference - Curle, J. A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1911, pp 286-7, Pl. LXIV, 1, 2, 4, 5.

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

None