Summary

Bronze camp kettle with a Latin inscription reading 'The troops of Lucanus' punched twice on the bottom, from the Roman site of Newstead, late 1st or 2nd century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1190

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Camp kettle of bronze with punctured inscription Lucani cut twice upon the bottom (fig. 37.2) "Rom. Fron. Post," p.274. Pl. LIII, 6. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

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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