Silver Necklace

Jewelry

Trimontium Museum

Image © National Museums Scotland

Name/Title

Silver Necklace

Entry/Object ID

X.FRA 851

Description

Silver necklace with a small eight spoke wheel ornament and crescent-shaped pendant attached, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium), late 1st or 2nd century

Style

Romano-British

Use

Personal decoration

Collection

National Museums Scotland

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

National Museums Scotland

Made/Created

Time Period

1st - 2nd century

Jewelry Details

Clasp

S Hook (aka Hook and Eye)

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Location

Trimontium Roman Fort Site, Newstead

Country

Scotland

* Untyped Cultural Region

United Kingdom

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Necklace

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Jewelry

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Body Adornments

Nomenclature Class

Adornment

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

necklaces

Material

Silver

Color

Silver

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

James Curle

Notes

1905 - 1910 excavations

Person or Organization

National Museums Scotland

Web Links and URLs

Artefact page on the National Museums Scotland website, "Lots and lots of Scotland's Early Silver: Bringing the Newstead Necklace Back to Life"