Summary

Bead of blue glass with white trails, from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 899

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Purple glass bead decorated with white wavy lines. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl XCI, 19.

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