Summary

Bronze prick spur fragment with portion of leather thong adhering, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 501

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Prick spur of bronze of late celtic type, one end awanting: a portion of a leather thing still adhering to the remaining termination.

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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