Summary

Small-disc-shaped stone playing counter with an X neatly incised on one face, Roman, Newstead, Roxburghshire

Accession Number

X.2009.12.567

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 6193 Short Description: gaming counter. Description: Small-disc-shaped stone playing counter with an X neatly incised on one face. Fine-grained siltstone. Found in the fort, 2nd February 2002. Diameter 20 mm, thickness 4 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