Summary

Architectural stone fragment, thin slab, the edges dressed square, one face smoothed, the other with angled pick-dressing, Roman, Newstead, Roxburghshire

Accession Number

X.2009.12.550

Other references

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 6176 Short Description: quern fragment. Description: Architectural stone fragment. Thin slab, the edges dressed square; one face smoothed, the other with angled pick-dressing. 139 x 123 x 37.5 mm. Newstead, Walter Elliot Collection. F. Hunter note, 2013-10-30: Roman.

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

None

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

2009

Acquisition source (i.e. name of donor)

Elliot collection

Acquisition source role (e.g. donor)

Donor

Image

None