Collections Online
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Advanced Search
Roman silver vexillum head
Slender, slightly tapering shaft with a socket at one end and a blunt point at the other. Immediately above the socket is an onion-, or inverted heart-, shaped plate, this extends nearly halfway up the shaft, where it narrows to little wider than the central shaft before expanding again into a fishtail shape. Split socket, formed simply by the plate wrapped round.
Silver standard head, 75-300 CE. This belonged to the Second Augustan Legion, which was stationed at Caerleon.
WA_SC 3.1
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
35.118/1.a1
Find Information
Site Name: School Field, Caerleon
Grid Reference: ST 33 91
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1928
Notes: Found lying in the uppermost floor of Room 9 in the magazines adjacent to a fabrica that was formerly identified by George Boon as the basilica exercitatoria (XIX).
Measurements
length / mm:285
maximum width / mm:98
width / mm
maximum thickness / mm:15
thickness / mm
weight / g:330.6
Comments are currently unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience.