Summary

Bronze bodkin or needle with an eyehole at the pointed end and other extremity terminating in an ornamented crook, from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 693

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Piercer or bodkin of bronze with an eyehole at the pointed end, & the other extremity terminating in an ornamented crook, 5 7/8" long.

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