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This block of roughly square sandstone, with a boar carved in relief, was found at the site of the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. It dates from between 140 and 180 AD.

Roman legionary emblem of a boar cut in a block of sandstone, from Newstead

Roman legions often had animal emblems. The boar was the emblem of the 20th Roman legion. Many of the soldiers who belonged to the legion were stationed at Newstead at one stage.

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• Online ID: 000-100-037-461-C
• Image Rights Holder: National Museums Scotland
• Project: National Museums Scotland
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• Ref: National Museums Scotland  X.FRA 1601
• Date: Between 140 and 180 AD
  
• Material: Sandstone; cut with a figure of a boar
  Block / emblem, legionary
  
• Dimensions: 180 mm H x 90 mm L x 145 mm W
  
• What: Block / emblem, legionary
  
• Subject:
• Who: Newstead Collection
  
• Where: Scotland, Roxburghshire, Melrose, Newstead
  
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• References:
  • Curle, J. A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1911, 144. 
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