Summary

Helmet cheek-piece from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1003

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Two portions of a plate of iron overlaid with bronze, with remains of a double moulding around the edge and in the centre of the larger piece what appears to be two legs of a human figure. ICB notes: Pair of a centerpiece.

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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