Summary

Melon bead of dark blue glass, from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 865 B

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Melon bead of dark blue glass 0.9" x 0.65". SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set.

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

1950

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Unknown

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

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