Summary

Bronze wine jug with bands of decoration on the body and rim, the handle ending in a female head with hair braided and hanging in curls, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1194

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Bronze handled jug, height 12 in. ovalo border round rim, handle ends in a female head. "Rom. Fron. Post," p. 275. pl. LVI. 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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