Summary

Pewter seal of the 3rd Cohort of Nervians, 'C III NER', from the Roman site at Newstead, 80 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1120

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Bulla of lead. "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl. LXXX, 19. F. Hunter note, 08/11/1996: Replace lead with pewter; Analysed by XRF (F8612B), 21.8.96. SD note, July 1999: Edited from SCRAN full data set. [MoS description] Letters of authority. Literacy in Scotland - a weapon of the Roman state. Organisation of trade. (24) Seal, Newstead. C III NER, '3rd Cohort of Nervians'. 80 - 180 AD.

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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