Summary

Copper alloy three-link bit fragment, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 575

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Portion, about one-third, of a ring of bronze, ornamented at one part by a transversely grooved bar between two trumpet-shaped terminals. Anon notes: Harness mounting or terret.

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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