NMS Archaeology Object 705277: X.2009.12.72 - Intaglio / fragment

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Description

Summary

Nicolo paste intaglio fragment showing a female figure, possibly Juno, holding a staff, Roman, Newstead, Roxburghshire

Accession Number

X.2009.12.72

Other references

Classification Day Book ARCH TTNC	X.FRA 5607 2000/103 2000/11

Original description

Part of a collection of fieldwalking finds made by Walter Elliot. ARCH DB 2000/103. ARCH TTNC 2000/11. N.B. X.2009.12.254 (X.FJ 199) is not from Newstead (glass bead from Rink, Selkirk), nor is X.2009.12.278.1 (X.BMA 4569) a collection of flint tools and flakes from Kalemouth, Roxburghshire (NT 714 276). X.FRA 5607 Nicolo paste intaglio fragment showing a female figure (possibly Juno) holding a staff. Found in the east annexe of Newstead in 1972; probably second century. See Henig & Elliot, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 112, 1982, 297 no 3; M Henig 1978, Corpus of engraved gemstones from British sites, appendix no 122. Elliot collection. F. Hunter note, 2013-10-30: Roman.

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

None

Discovery / field collection

Date of discovery

1972

Method (e.g. excavation)

Fieldwalking

Place (i.e. location of discovery)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Grid reference

Not recorded

Acquisition

Acquisition date

2009

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Elliot collection

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

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