Summary

Reconstructed ceramic grinding bowl (mortarium) of soft buff ware, stamped with the manufacturer's name 'Brvsc', from the Roman site at Newstead, 140 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1428

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Mortarium (reconstructed) of soft buff ware; stamp BRVSC; diam., 12 1/2". "Rom. Fron. Post," Pl L(A), 8. 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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