Summary

Bronze camp kettle with everted rim and punched inscription 'turma Crispi Nigri', from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st or 2nd century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1191

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Camp kettle of bronze from pit XCIX. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 274, not illustrated. FJH note: add everted rim and punctured inscription "turma Crispi Nigri". 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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