NMS Archaeology Object 136725: X.FRA 1108 - Vessel metal / lamp, hanging

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Description

Summary

Iron hanging lamp from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 1108

Other references

	II.15.117 H.MGF 29

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Hanging lamp of iron. "Rom. Fron Post, PLl. LXXIX, 6. Trevor Cowie notes, 26..6.2014: this lamp seems to have been found unregistered in the museum in 1974 and was catalogued as a cruisie lamp (H.MGF 29) but it in fact forms part of the Newstead collection (from which it had been recorded as missing for some time); it therefore reverts to its original catalogue number X.FRA 1108. The accession number H.MGF 29 which it had been allocated is now redundant.

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)