Summary

Pine writing tablet, with the centre hollowed out to hold wax, from the Roman site at Newstead, mid 2nd century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 710

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Tablet of pine, 5 1/2" x 4 3/8". 'Rom. Fron. Post,' p. 308. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

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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