Summary

Fragment of a bowl of Samian ware, decorated with the head and foreleg of a bear, part of a pygmy warrior and the letters 'MI', from the Roman site at Newstead

Accession Number

X.FRA 1304

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Small fragment of lower portion of a bowl (Drag. 37). The head and foreleg of a bear and part of a pigmy warrior and the letters MI are visible. Lezoux. "Rom. Fron. Post", p. 217. 15. HMcC note, 1998-99: Updated from SCRAN full data set.

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

Image

None