Shield cover

Description

Leather shield cover from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Museum reference

X.FRA 69

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Shield cover

Style / Culture

Romano-British

Materials

Leather

Physical description

Leather; irregularly shaped; on one side a semicircular excision surrounded by stitch marks, on the other marks of a fork-shaped patch

Collection place(s)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Newstead Collection

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record

On display

national museum of scotland »
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