Summary

Fragment of Samian ware marked 'E' to indicate ownership, from the Roman site at Newstead, 140 - 180 AD

Accession Number

X.FRA 1538

Other references

Original description

NEWSTEAD COLLECTION. Fragment of terra sigillata. MARCELLI M. On bottom of platter. Type Dragendorff 31. [MOS List, Literacy, II.4.3, October 1997]. Many soldiers could read and write to some extent, and marked their name on their belongings. Pottery. Samian. (E). Newstead. SD note, July 1999: Edited 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

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