Summary

Globular glass bead, opaque mid-red, probably post-Roman, Mason Collection, from Newstead, Roxburghshire

Accession Number

X.2009.13.8

Other references

Original description

X.2009.13.8 = FRA 5530. Opaque mid-red globular glass bead. Post-Roman? Mason Collection, Newstead. Diameter 16 mm, height 13 mm. One of eleven additional glass beads which formed part of the Mason collection (X.1989.1), but had been passed on to Walter Elliot & came to NMS within the Elliot Collection (X.2009.12). All are from Newstead, and were collected by James and Walter Mason in field-walking the site over many years.

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

Mason Collection

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

Not recorded

Method (e.g. excavation)

Fieldwalking

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

Not recorded

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Not recorded

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Not recorded

Image

None