Summary

Bone hairpin from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 687

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Hairpin of bone. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl XCIII, 14. Fraser Hunter note, 27 September 2005: Should be bone hairpin, not tweezers and correct plate reference is J Curle 1911 “A Roman frontier post and its people”. Glasgow: Maclehose, PI XCIII, No. 15.

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