Tent Gable Top

Object/Artifact

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Trimontium Museum

Image © National Museums Scotland

Image © National Museums Scotland

Name/Title

Tent Gable Top

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 65 A

Description

Leather panel used as a tent gable top, one of two, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), Roxburghshire, Scotland, 80-180 AD

Use

This would have been used at the top of the tent where the three points of the tent poles would meet. It was used as a extra layer of protection against the elements.

Context

Tents would have been used as the primary living quarters during the early part of the occupation of the fort, and would have continued to be used by the soldiers.

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Category

Leather

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 65 A

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Tent

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Structures

Nomenclature Class

Structures

Nomenclature Category

Category 01: Built Environment Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

tent roofs

Material

Leather

Color

Black, Brown

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

James Curle

Web Links and URLs

Canmore , National Museum Scotland Object link

Provenance

Provenance Detail

1905 - 1911 Excavations

Acquisition Method

Found