Summary

Wooden stave-built well bucket, made from oak, with an iron handle and supports, from the Roman site at Newstead, late 1st century AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1201

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Bucket of oak with iron handle, 11 7/8 high, diameter at mouth 10 1/2". "A Roman Frontier Post", p. 310,Pl LXIX, 4. Anon notes: Entered twice in register. Once as 11.15.179 again as xii 15.3. 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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