NMS Archaeology Object 623014: X.FRA 4236 - Earring


Description

Summary


Gold penannular earring, one blunt end, one tapered, from the Roman site at Newstead


Accession Number


X.FRA 4236


Other references

Not recordedX.FRA 1014

Original description

Gold penannular ear-ring, Newstead. One blunt end, one tapered. 12 mm hoop diameter, wire thickness 1.25 mm. Allason-Jones type 1. (See Analytical Report 95/17). Reference: Allason-Jones 1989 "Ear-Rings in Roman Britain", Oxford: BAR 201, pp 106-7, no. 386. Previously numbered as part of general collection of miscellaneous copper alloy, X.FRA 1014.

Associated person/people (e.g. excavator/former collection)

Newstead Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Not recorded

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

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