Summary

Hairpin or dress pin of bone, with the head in the form of a carved bust of a woman with a high and elaborate hair style, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 100 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 688

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Hairpin of bone with bust for the head. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl XCIII, 16. [MoS description] Early People. Rare images. (4) Pin head with bust of woman, Newstead. 80 - 100 AD. [Scran caption] This perfectly preserved bone pin was found at the site of the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. It was worn as a hairpin or a dress pin, sometime between 80 and 100 AD. The head of the pin is a carefully executed bust representing a lady - perhaps an Empress - with a high and elaborate hair style - which would have needed many hair pins to hold its shape. Date: Between 80 and 100 AD. Material: Bone. Dimensions: Length: 11.4 cm.

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