Denton, Roman building-stone
Denton, Roman building-stone
HER Number
1271
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Denton, Roman building-stone
Place
Denton
Map Sheet
NZ16NE
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Stone
Site Type: Specific
Centurial Stone
General Period
ROMAN
Specific Period
Roman 43 to 410
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Building-stone found in, or shortly before, 1851 and thereupon built into a garden wall at West Denton; presumably from the Wall near milecastle 8. Now lost. Inscribed: c(enturia) )) Iuli Pri((...)) "The century of Julius Pri((... (built this)".
Easting
419000
Northing
565000
Grid Reference
NZ419000565000
Sources
<< HER 1271 >> C. Roach Smith, 19th century, Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. II, 196, pl. xlviii.8
Gentleman's Magazine, 1851, XXXVI, 386
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1369
Gentleman's Magazine, 1851, XXXVI, 386
R.G. Collingwood & R.P. Wright, 1965, The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, 1369