Summary

Dragonesque fibula (brooch) of bronze, decorated with blue, red and yellow enamel, from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 757

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Enamelled dragonesque fibula. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl LXXXV. 7.

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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