NMS Archaeology Object 136275: X.FRA 694 - Spoon
Description
Summary
Bone spoon with a hole, probably for catching solids in wine, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD
Accession Number
X.FRA 694
Other references
Not recorded | III.15.107 |
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Original description
NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Spoon-like object of bone with a perforation through the blade. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl XCII, 21.
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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Identifiers and Links to Other Records
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Identifier / External Link | Linked Record | Status | Comment |
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Canmore Site Id: 55621 | NEWSTEAD - MELROSE - ROMAN FORT (ROMAN) | Definite | |
NMS Accession Number: X.FRA 694 | No linked record | Identifier supplied by NMS |
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