Summary

Iron compasses from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 442

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Object of iron consisting of two arms, the longer of them 8 1/2" long, working on a pivot.

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