Knife

Object/Artifact

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Trimontium Museum

©National Museums Scotland. Digitised from a positive on film by The Trimontium Trust

©National Museums Scotland. Digitised from a positive on film by The Trimontium Trust

Name/Title

Knife

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 271

Description

Iron knife with a curved edge, probably British, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), 80 - 180 AD

Use

It could have been used for a number of purposes, including skinning animals.

Context

Found in Pit LIV. There were three stages to prepare a skin. First the hide was removed from a dead animal using knives such as this one. Next, it was cleaned, by loosening hair and fat, then scraping flesh, muscles and tendons with scrapers. Then the hide was preserved. (From NMS SCRAN)

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Category

Knife
Food Preparation & Storage

Acquisition

Accession

X.FRA 271

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

Romano British, British, Celtic

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Knife

Nomenclature Class

Multiple Use T&E for Materials

Nomenclature Category

Category 04: Tools & Equipment for Materials

Getty AAT

Concept

knives

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Previous Accession Number

Other Number

I 15-169

Dimensions

Width

30 mm

Length

150 mm

Material

Iron

Color

Brown, dark grey

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

James Curle

Notes

Excavator

Web Links and URLs

National Museums Scotland web link to object , Canmore web link to Newstead (Trimontium) , "A Frontier Post and Its People", James Curle, p.282 and Pl. LX - 7., Artefact page on NMS SCRAN

Provenance

Provenance Detail

1905 - 1911 Excavations

Acquisition Method

Found

Notes

James Curle