Ingot / iron

Object/Artifact

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Trimontium Museum

©National Museums Scotland: Digitised and edited from a positive on film by The Trimontium Trust
©National Museums Scotland

Digitised and edited from a positive on film by The Trimontium Trust

Name/Title

Ingot / iron

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 309

Description

Ingot of iron, partly worked, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Use

Used as mandrel. Ingots would be used to create metal objects and weaponry.

Context

Found at Trimontium. Pit XVI

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Category

Ingot

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 309

Source (if not Accessioned)

National Museums of Scotland

Made/Created

Date made

80 - 180

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Roman

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Ingot

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Stock, Metal

Nomenclature Class

Metalworking T&E

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Getty AAT

Concept

ingot

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous Accession Number

Other Number

I 15-208

Material

Iron

Color

Brown

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

James Curle

Notes

Excavator

Related Publications

Publication

A Roman Frontier Post and Its People

Web Links and URLs

"A Roman Frontier Post and Its People", J Curle, Chapter 13, p. 286 and Pl. LXIII-12, National Museums Scotland web link to object , Canmore web link to Newstead (Trimontium)

Provenance

Provenance Detail

1905 - 1911 Excavations

Acquisition Method

Found