Plate

Object/Artifact

Trimontium Museum

Image © National Museums Scotland

Name/Title

Plate

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 685

Description

Small plate of brass, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), Roxburghshire, 80 - 180 AD

Use

May have been apart of an ornate hair pin

Context

Various personal items have been found at Trimontium, belonging to both male and female individuals.

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 685

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Continent

Europe

Culture/Tribe

Romano British

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Hairpin

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Ornament, Hair

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Hair Adornments

Nomenclature Class

Adornment

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

hairpins

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous Accession Number

Other Number

II.15.226

Material

Brass

Color

Brown

Web Links and URLs

National Museums Scotland web link to artefact, Canmore web link to Newstead (Trimontium)

Provenance

Provenance Detail

1905 - 1911 Excavations

Acquisition Method

Found

Notes

James Curle

Research Notes

Research Type

Reference

Person

James Curle

Notes

"Roman Frontier Post and Its People" Plate LXXXIV, 3