Earring

Description

Fragmentary copper alloy spiral earring, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Museum reference

X.FRA 4237

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Earring

Style / Culture

Romano-British

Materials

Copper alloy

Physical description

Copper alloy; spiral of circular-sectioned wire, snapped off after three coils

Collection place(s)

Newstead, Roxburghshire, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Newstead Collection

References

Allason-Jones, Earrings in Roman Britain, Oxford, 1989: BAR 201, pp 107, no. 388

Links to other web pages

Canmore Site Record