Horse-Armour/Chamfron

Object/Artifact

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Trimontium Museum

Image © National Museums Scotland

Image © National Museums Scotland

Name/Title

Horse-Armour/Chamfron

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 74

Description

Chamfron or horse mask of leather with surface design of brass-headed studs, barding (horse armour) designed to protect a horse's head, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), Roxburghshire. 68-100 AD. A chamfron is a piece of barding (horse-armour) designed to protect a horse's head.

Use

Used to protect horses head on and off the battlefield.

Context

Part of Newstead Collection. Leather chamfron from Pit LXXVIII. Updated from SCRAN full data set, December 1998.

Collection

National Museums Scotland, Newstead Collection

Category

Leather

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 74

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd Century AD

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Armor, Horse

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tack, Animal

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Land Transportation Accessories

Nomenclature Class

Land Transportation T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 07: Distribution & Transportation Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

horse armor

Other Names

Name Type

Previous Accesssion Number

Other Name

XII 14-143

Dimensions

Height

575 mm

Width

540 mm

Depth

50 mm

Material

Leather, Brass

Color

Brown, Black

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

James Curle

Notes

Excavator

Related Publications

Publication

A Roman Frontier Post and Its People

Notes

Plate XXI.

Web Links and URLs

National Museums Scotland object link, Canmore weblink to Newstead (Trimontium), Plate XXI Ornamented Leather Work

Provenance

Provenance Detail

1905 - 1911 Excavations

Acquisition Method

Found